Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said that it’s time for North Korea “to behave” and “abandon and dismantle their nuclear and ballistic missile program.”
“The time has really come for North Korea to get the message,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in Tokyo, a day after visiting South Korea and the Demilitarized Zone.
Speaking in Seoul on Monday, Pence said that “the era of strategic patience is over” and “all options are on the table” when it comes to preventing North Korea from using a nuclear weapon.
“As the President says, it’s time for them to behave, to listen to the world community and to set aside their nuclear ambitions, their ballistic missile ambitions,” Pence said on Tuesday. “We’ve really moved beyond the era of strategic patience. We’ve moved beyond failed dialogues of the past.”
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