Tillerson says Trump wanted to send ‘strong message’ to North Korea
By Reuters
10 August 2017 |
9:00 am
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says President Trump’s warning of “fire and fury” against North Korea was intended to prevent Pyongyang from miscalculating and says Americans should “sleep well at night”.
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