US Diplomat Denies Efforts Against N. Korea’s Nuclear Program a ‘Lost Cause’

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday refuted the assessment made this week by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in which he said that trying to persuade North Korea to denuclearize "is probably a lost cause.” “We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state. We will not accept North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons, period,” said Blinken. The U.S Deputy Secretary of State was meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister...

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