{"id":328531,"date":"2017-10-01T18:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-tillerson-wasting-his-time-trying-to-negotiate-with-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:41:42","slug":"trump-tillerson-wasting-his-time-trying-to-negotiate-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-tillerson-wasting-his-time-trying-to-negotiate-with-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Tillerson \u2018wasting his time\u2019 trying to negotiate with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has suggested that direct communications with North Korea will not resolve the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang, saying that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is &#8220;wasting his time&#8221; by\u00a0trying to negotiate\u00a0with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments on Sunday appeared to undercut Tillerson\u2019s diplomatic efforts despite the escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cSave your energy Rex, we&#8217;ll do what has to be done!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks came one day after Tillerson announced that the Trump administration has opened \u201clines of communication\u201d with the North Korean government and has sought potential discussions about its missile and nuclear tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lines of communication with Pyongyang. We&#8217;re not in a dark situation, a blackout, we have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/01\/537131\/US-Trump-Tillerson-wasting-his-time\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has suggested that direct communications with North Korea will not resolve the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang, saying that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is &#8220;wasting his time&#8221; by\u00a0trying to negotiate\u00a0with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\u00a0 Trump&#8217;s comments on Sunday appeared to undercut Tillerson\u2019s diplomatic efforts despite the escalating tensions between Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}