The United States has attempted to engage North Korea in dialogue for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but the Kim Jong Un regime has responded only with provocations, a U.S. official said Monday.
“This offer of dialogue and diplomacy has, at least so far, been met only with additional provocations,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a press briefing.
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast on Sept. 25, officials in South Korea and Japan said, just two days after U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived in South Korea for naval drills.
Japan’s Defense Ministry said the details of the missile launch were being investigated but that the missile would have flown about 400 kilometers (249 miles) at an altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles) on a regular trajectory….