North Korea's Kim appears to ease rhetoric

The Washington Post:  TOKYO — The United States is ready to use the “full range” of its military capabilities to deal with North Korea, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told South Korean leaders Monday, amid widening pressures on the regime of Kim Jong Un.

But Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., speaking in Seoul, just 30 miles south of the border with North Korea, stressed that diplomacy and sanctions were the first plan of attack.

“The military dimension today is directly in support of that diplomatic and economic effort,” Dunford told reporters after meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul.

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