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		</div><p>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has urged calm and said Americans should have &#8220;no concerns&#8221; after North Korea and President Donald Trump traded fiery threats.</p>
<p>He said he does not believe there is &#8220;any imminent threat&#8221;, and &#8220;Americans should sleep well at night&#8221;.<br />
Mr Tillerson sought to explain the thinking behind President Trump&#8217;s warning to Pyongyang that it would be &#8220;met with fire and fury like the world has never seen&#8221; if it made more threats to the United States. </p>
<p>Mr Tillerson said President Trump was trying to send a strong and clear message to North Korea&#8217;s leader so that there would not be &#8220;any miscalculation&#8221;. &#8220;What the president is doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong Un can understand, because he doesn&#8217;t seem to understand diplomatic language,&#8221; Mr Tillerson said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the president just wanted to be clear to the North Korean regime on the US unquestionable ability to defend itself, will defend itself and its allies.&#8221; He said North Korea&#8217;s escalating threats showed it was feeling the pressure from a successful US strategy.</p>
<p>Mr Tillerson downplayed any speculation that the alarming developments suggested the US was moving closer to a military option to dealing with the crisis over the North&#8217;s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.<br />
&#8220;Nothing that I have seen and nothing that I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours,&#8221; Mr Tillerson said.</p>
<p>Mr Tillerson spoke to reporters aboard his plane as he returned from Malaysia to Washington, stopping along the way in Guam. Hours earlier, North Korea&#8217;s army had said in a statement it was exploring plans for attacking the tiny US territory, which houses US military bases and is a common refuelling stop for US government aircraft crossing the Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p>Mr Tillerson said he never considered re-routing his trip from Malaysia so as to avoid stopping in Guam. Though he insisted there was no imminent threat, he noted that even if there were, &#8220;the North Korean missile capability can point in many directions, so Guam is not the only place that would be under threat&#8221;. The comments put Mr Tillerson once again in the role of translating the president&#8217;s aggressive rhetoric into more diplomatic terms, and of working to minimise the chances of a public panic. </p>
<p>Though it is extremely unlikely the North would risk annihilation by pre-emptively attacking American citizens, the escalating rhetoric has heightened concern that a miscalculation could spiral out of control and lead to military conflict &#8211; a concern that residents of Guam said they felt particularly acutely. Mr Tillerson, who spent the past days in Asia working the North Korea conflict, said he did not believe a new diplomatic strategy was needed.</p>
<p>To the contrary, he said the latest threat from the North suggested the current strategy was working. After months of frustration over China&#8217;s reluctance to pressure Pyongyang economically, the US on Saturday secured a unanimous UN Security Council vote to authorise sweeping new sanctions that target one-third of the North&#8217;s exports.</p>
<p>&#8220;The pressure is starting to show,&#8221; Mr Tillerson said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s why the rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang is beginning to become louder and more threatening. Whether we&#8217;ve got them backed into a corner or not is difficult to say, but diplomatically, you never like to have someone in a corner without a way for them to get out.&#8221;</p>
<p>To that end, Mr Tillerson said there was still an off-ramp available to Pyongyang: A return to negotiations with the US, a step that Mr Tillerson has previously said can happen only if Kim Jong Un&#8217;s government gives up its nuclear aspirations, starting with an extended pause in missile tests.</p>
<p>&#8220;Talks,&#8221; Mr Tillerson said when asked if North Korea had a way out. </p>
<p>&#8220;Talks, with the right expectation of what those talks will be about.&#8221; President Donald Trump later said that the United States&#8217; nuclear arsenal is &#8220;far stronger and more powerful than ever before&#8221;.<br />
President Trump tweeted: &#8220;My first order as President was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
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