President Donald Trump declared attempts to negotiate with North Korea as “a waste of time,” adding that the U.S. “will do what has to be done.”
Over the weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the U.S. had opened a direct channel of communication with Pyongyang, which has tested rockets with increasing regularity. Tillerson has said there were at least “a couple” of channels through which the two parties were attempting to negotiate, The Wall Street Journal reported.
However, Trump on Sunday effectively undercut his Secretary of State’s diplomacy. In a series of posts on Twitter, Trump told Tillerson to “save his energy,” and that the U.S. was prepared to do what it needed to rein in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
