US Vice President Mike Pence has visited the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea.
He's also reiterated President Trump's claim that he'll "go it alone" in a bid to derail North Korea's nuclear aspirations unless China does more to help.
Mr. Pence is the first top US official to visit South Korea since a North Korean missile test failed over the weekend.
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Vice President Pence told South Korea's interim President that Washington will stand behind its treaty obligations to defend Seoul in case of any North Korean attack.
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Vice President Pence says America’s era of “strategic patience” with North Korea is at an end.
Paul Ingram of the independent think tank the British American Security Information Council says there are still few ways of resolving the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
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