Press Releases: Secretary Tillerson’s Call With U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

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Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

September 7, 2017


The following is attributable to Spokesperson Heather Nauert:

Yesterday, Secretary Tillerson spoke on the phone with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to discuss recent actions taken by the D.P.R.K. Secretary Tillerson and Foreign Secretary Johnson condemned the D.P.R.K’s most recent nuclear test and discussed the need for increased pressure on the D.P.R.K., including through a robust new UN Security Council resolution. Secretary Tillerson and Foreign Secretary Johnson agreed on the need for all countries, including China, to take action to exert diplomatic and economic pressure on the D.P.R.K.