AMBASSADOR/NIKKI HALEY/NORTH KOREA/UN: “US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a stern warning to North Korea on Tuesday, saying the US ‘will never accept a nuclear North Korea.’…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held out a rare olive branch to South Korea on Monday, offering talks about sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month.
Kim struck an unusually conciliatory note in his annual New Year’s Day address, declaring his wish ‘for peaceful resolution with our southern border.’
He also warned the United States that North Korea’s nuclear ambitions were now complete and the launch button was ‘always on the desk in my office.’
When asked about the offered talks, Haley said first and foremost North Korea needs to stop making nuclear weapons.
‘We won’t take any of the talks seriously if they don’t do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea. We consider this to be a very reckless regime, we don’t think we need a Band-Aid and we don’t think we need to smile and take a picture,’ she said. ‘We think that we need to have them stop nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now.’ “
-Daniella Diaz, “Nikki Haley: ‘We will never accept a nuclear North Korea’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 2, 2018 07:25pm