Tillerson on North Korea: ‘The Policy of Strategic Patience Is Over’

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TILLERSON: "We have said this before and it bears repeating. The policy of strategic patience is over. Additional patience will only mean acceptance of a nuclear North Korea. The more we bide our time, the sooner we will run out of it. In light of the growing threat, the time has come for all of us to put new pressure on North Korea to abandon its dangerous path. I urge this council to act before North Korea does. We must work together to adopt a new approach and impose increased diplomatic and economic pressures on the North Korean regime. The new campaign the United States is embarking on is driven by our own national security considerations and welcomed by many nations who are concerned for their own security and question why North Korea clings to nuclear capabilities for which it has no need."