04 August, 2017
She said Tillerson will also visit Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur during his trip to the region on August 5-9.
A policeman walks past various national flags at the venue of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) meeting in Manila.
"Persons now in North Korea on a U.S. passport should depart North Korea before the travel restriction enters into effect on Friday, September 1st, 2017", the U.S. Department of State said.
In June he tweeted China's efforts to restrain North Korea had "not worked out" but said he "greatly appreciated their efforts".
Until North Korea scraps their nuclear weapons program, the State Department will seek means to pressure Pyongyang in ways that "change their calculus", Nauert added.
And he continued to push for Chinese help to keep pressure on North Korea due to their special economic relationship.
The statement said it hopes members of the ASEAN Regional Forum, of which North Korea is a member, would "highlight that DPRK behavior has been unacceptable and call upon the DPRK to cease its unlawful actions".
It went from an intended grandiose monument of North Korea to being dubbed by locals 'The Hotel of Doom', but now Pyongyang looks like it may finally be ready to open the capital's biggest landmark. He said the North Korean problem is not China's fault, but China must help create conditions for productive talks.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said on the "Today" show on Tuesday that military action against the reclusive state is "inevitable if North Korea continues" pursing its missile program.
In its editorial, Xinhua said it was "definitely irrational" to blame China for North Korea's missile launch.
Tensions run high following North Korea's two tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles last month.
ASEAN, which includes Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, is "very much concerned about the developments in the Korean Peninsula", said Philippine Foreign Ministry spokesman Robespierre Bolivar.
U.S. President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated by what he says is China's reluctance to rein in North Korea. But China says that it is part of the United States national missile defense system that will undermine its strategic security interests.
A foreign ministry official said that bilateral talks to be held between South Korea and China on the sidelines of the ASEAN meetings will be yet another "focal point" as China will likely step up its demand for the withdrawal of the THAAD system from the Korean Peninsula.
