US, China to work to prevent conflict on Korean peninsula, Tillerson says

The United States and China agreed on Saturday that tension on the Korean peninsula has reached dangerous levels and pledged to do everything possible to prevent a conflict in that region, the US Secretary of State said Saturday.


"We also exchanged views and I think we share a common view in the sense that tensions in the peninsula are quite high right now, and that things have reached a rather dangerous level," Rex Tillerson said at a press conference after meeting his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Beijing.

"We have committed ourselves to do everything we can to prevent any type of conflict from breaking out," he added.

The visit to China by Rex Tillerson, the first member of US President Donald Trump's cabinet to do so, is the last leg of his Asian tour, his first overseas trip since becoming the chief US diplomat.
  [EFE/EPA]
18/3/17
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