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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 23 august 2017
At Press Time:

2 of 10 missing US sailors identified after warship crash

DETROIT (AP) — Sailors with Smith’s father, stepmother
ties to Michigan and Illinois and grandfather served in
are among 10 who are the Navy. She said Smith,
missing after a U.S. warship 22, grew up in Novi, Michi-
collided with an oil tanker gan, and moved to Nor-
in Southeast Asia. folk, Virginia, as a teen with
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis said his father.
he was informed by Logan “His father and I couldn’t
Palmer’s family that the be prouder of our son,”
central Illinois man is miss- Brandon said.
ing. “He’s a great kid. He’s a
In Michigan, April Brandon hero.”
said the military informed Davis, a Republican whose
her that her son, Ken Smith, district includes the De-
is also missing. catur area, said Palmer
The USS John McCain col- comes from a “patriotic
lided with an oil tanker off family.”
Singapore on Monday. He enlisted in 2016.
Adm. Scott Swift said some “Our military must do what-
bodies have been found in ever necessary to minimize Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Scott Swift, left, arrives for a press conference with the USS
a flooded compartment of incidents like this and pro- John S. McCain, left, and USS America docked in the background at Singapore’s Changi naval
the warship. tect those who risk their base on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Singapore. The focus of the search for 10 U.S. sailors missing
No other details have been lives each day in service to after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters
released. Brandon said our country,” Davis said.q shifted Tuesday to the damaged destroyer’s flooded compartments.
(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

US notes North Korea ‘restraint,’

points to possibility of dialogue

By MAT PENNINGTON that they are ready to re-
MATTHEW LEE strain their level of tensions,
Associated Press they’re ready to restrain
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec- their provocative acts,”
retary of State Rex Tillerson Tillerson said, “and that
on Tuesday commended perhaps we are seeing
North Korea for recent re- our pathway to sometime
straint in its provocations in the near future having
and said it could point the some dialogue.”
way to a possible dialogue Tillerson added a caveat.
with the U.S. “We need to see more on
It was rare positive expres- their part,” he said, without
sion from the U.S. toward elaborating.
the authoritarian govern- The U.N. sanctions were a
ment in Pyongyang and response to twin tests last
comes amid a slight easing month of an intercontinen-
in recent tensions between tal ballistic missile that may
the adversaries that had be able to reach parts of
flared after President Don- the U.S., heightening con-
ald Trump pledged to an- cern in Washington that
swer North Korean aggres- North Korea could soon be
sion with “fire and fury.” able to threaten it with nu-
North Korea, for its part, clear weapons. It was the
had threatened to launch latest salvo in the Trump
missiles toward the Ameri- administration’s push to
can territory of Guam. increase economic and
Addressing reporters at the diplomatic pressure on Kim
State Department, Tiller- Jong Un’s government.
son said that North Korea However, the U.S. admin-
had “demonstrated some istration has left the door
level of restraint that we open to engagement with
have not seen in the past” the North, with Tillerson
by not conducting missile recently urging it to stop
launches or provocative missile tests to show its sin-
acts since the U.N. Secu- cerity. While the two sides
rity Council adopted tough have maintained quiet dip-
sanctions on Aug. 5. lomatic contacts in recent
“We hope that this is the months, there has been
beginning of this signal that scant sign that Pyongyang
we have been looking for, will oblige.q