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Trump certain china to help deal with North Korean threat

22 April 2017 05:09 (UTC +04:00)

US President Donald Trump is confident that China will help resolve the North Korean nuclear issue peacefully, US Vice President Mike Pence said at a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney, APA reports quoting sputniknews

"President Trump and I are truly grateful to you for calling on China even this week to play an even more active and constructive role in addressing the North Korean threat. Now, the President and I have, in his words, great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea and I know you share that hope. But as President Trump made clear just a few days ago, if China is unable to deal with North Korea, the United States and our allies will," Pence told Turnbull on Friday.

According to Pence, the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group sent toward the Korean Peninsula amid continuing tensions this month will be in the Sea of Japan within days.