{"id":54194,"date":"2017-12-09T06:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54194"},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:11:24","slug":"u-s-envoy-for-north-korean-affairs-travels-to-japan-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/u-s-envoy-for-north-korean-affairs-travels-to-japan-thailand.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs travels to Japan, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs travels to Japan, Thailand<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">U.S. envoy for North Korean affairs travels to Japan, Thailand:- The U.S. envoy for North Korea will travel to Japan and Thailand next week to discuss how to increase pressure on Pyongyang after its latest ballistic missile test, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">North Korea, formally called the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK), last week tested its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), saying the device could reach all of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Joseph Yun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, will travel to Japan and Thailand Dec. 11-15 to meet government officials \u201cto discuss ways to strengthen the pressure campaign following the DPRK\u2019s latest ballistic missile test,\u201d the State Department said in a brief written statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThe United States looks forward to continuing its partnership with both these nations so that the DPRK will return to credible talks on denuclearization,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tensions have risen markedly in recent months over North Korea\u2019s development, in defiance of repeated rounds of U.N. sanctions, of nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Last week\u2019s missile test prompted a U.S. warning that North Korea\u2019s leadership would be \u201cutterly destroyed\u201d if war were to break out. 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