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because it is dangerous. not only to the peninsula, to our allies in south korea, but also to our allies in japan and elsewhere throughout the region. and yet they have failed to take us up on that offer. we re continuing to make it. in the meantime, since they aren t responding positively to it, the president is taking additional actions to make sure that we can defend our security alliances and meet our commitments in the region. we re bolstering military exercises in training events. we re working harder to improve tri-lateral cooperation go with the japanese and south koreans and we ll continue to improve our ability to gather intelligence and information. just to follow up on that. when i was covering the white house not that long ago. what i was told was that there was no communication between the u.s. and north korea. that they had not responded to anything. is that still accurate? or are you saying they ve responded, just not positively. they have not responded to our offer
kaitlan collins don t, we don t have an embassy there, we don t have direct diplomatic relations. but there are ways to pass communications back and forth. we have consistently made it clear, to kim jong-un and to the regime in pyongyang, that we are willing to sit down without preconditions, to talk about the denuclearization of the peninsula, and to talk about riding the peninsula in the region of this arsenal that kim jong-un continues to try to improve and perfect. because it s dangerous, not only to the peninsula, but to our allies in south korea, but actually to our allies in japan, and elsewhere throughout the region. yet, they have failed to take us up on that offer. but we re continuing to make, it even today we re making, it in the meantime, since they re not responding positively to it, the president is also taking additional actions to make sure that we can defend our security alliances and meet our commitments in the region. we are bolstering military exercises and trainin
Mounting frictions between the two sides appear to be part of China’s efforts to disrupt the ties between South Korea and the United States but could end up drawing the two allies even closer.