NKorea Discussed in a Putin-Trump Call
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump discussed the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program in a phone call Thursday, in which Trump took the unusual step of thanking Putin for praising America's economy.
The two presidents discussed "the situation in several crisis zones, with a focus on solving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula," the Kremlin said in a statement, without elaborating.
The White House said the two "discussed working together to resolve the very dangerous situation in North Korea."
Washington this week said it was ready to talk to North Korea -- which has launched several intercontinental ballistic missiles in recent months -- "without preconditions."
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that while the Trump administration was still determined to force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear arsenal, it was willing to "have the first meeting without preconditions."
Putin, in his annual press conference with hundreds of journalists in Moscow, welcomed the United States' "awareness of reality" in the crisis.
However, he called on all sides to "stop aggravating the situation" and said Moscow did not recognize North Korea's status as a nuclear power.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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