North Korea v USA LIVE: Donald Trump sends warships to China amid Kim Jong-un row

Saturday, June 17, 2017
By Paul Martin

NORTH Korea is threatening a “merciless strike” against the US, While Donald Trump sends a new warship to the South China Sea amid the conflict with Kim Jong-un. Here are live updates and the latest news on North Korea.

By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY
Express.co.uk
Sat, Jun 17, 2017

US warship USS Sterett, a guided-missile destroyer, is making a port call in Zhanjiang in China.
North Korea’s state media are boasting the power of Kim Jong-un’s army and the regime’s missiles.
Otto Warmer, the comatose student released by Pyongyang, is being treated in a US hospital.
South Korean military have delayed the deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system.
The UN is demanding North Korea explains why Otto Warmbier returned home in a coma.

9.45pm: Veteran former US politician and diplomat Bill Richardson has offered to visit North Korea to secure the release of three detained Americans and a Canadian.

The former New Mexico governor and congressman previously visited North Korea in the 1990s to encourage the release of detained Americans.

And today he announced he helped to do the same again, and had made the proposal in a letter to the North Korean mission to the United Nations.

He argued in the letter it was in North Korea’s interest to free the detainees unconditionally, “in the light of its failure to properly take care and handle” US student’s Otto Warmbier’s case.

9.08pm: James Mattis also made clear that the US was nearing the end of its rope in dealing with North Korea, saying: “We’re exhausting all possible diplomatic efforts in this regard.”

North Korea recently taunted Trump by saying it was capable of hitting New York with a nuclear missile, but Mattis said a war today would hurt our Asian allies.

He said: “It would be a serious, a catastrophic war, especially for innocent people in some of our allied countries, to include Japan most likely.”

8.01pm: US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has boldy claimed that America would win a war North Korea if tensions reached that point.

“I would suggest that we will win,” Mr Mattis told a special committee. “It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we’ve seen since 1953.

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