Not seeking change in N Korea regime: US

WASHINGTON: The US does not seek a regime change in North Korea and wants to work with China to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring nuclear weapons, US secretary of state Rex Tillers on said.

Tillerson on Tuesday said Washington was“responding to an unacceptable threat to the US”. He said that the US was not Pyongyang’s “enemy”.

“We hope that at some point they will begin to understand that and we would like to sit and have a dialogue with them.” He reiterated the US does not “seek a reunification of the peninsula”.

“We do not seek regime change... We do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel,” he said.

He said China has a role to play, as it accounts for 90% of trade with the nation. “We call upon them to use that influence with North Korea to create the conditions where we can have a productive dialogue.” IANS