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U.S.: China needs to exert ‘much greater pressure’ on N. Korea

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON the United States regards
Associated Press North Korea as our top se-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The curity threat,” Tillerson said.
United States said Wednes- “We reiterated to China
day that China has a re- that it has a diplomatic re-
sponsibility to exert much sponsibility to exert much
greater pressure on North greater economic and
Korea to prevent escalat- diplomatic pressure on the
ing tensions with a govern- regime if they want to pre-
ment that ignores the law vent further escalation in
and “provokes and pro- the region.” Tillerson called
vokes and provokes.” for increased efforts to cur-
U.S. diplomatic and de- tail the North’s illicit rev-
fense chiefs met their Chi- enue streams of revenue
nese counterparts for se- that allegedly help fund its
curity talks and pushed nuclear weapon and mis-
China to rein in companies sile programs. He said the
that allegedly deal with its two sides agreed on the
wayward ally North Korea need for companies not
in violation of U.N. sanc- to deal with North Korea in
tions. violation of U.N. sanctions,
Trump has been counting but did not specify any
on China to use its eco- particular action China
nomic leverage with the was promising to take.
government of North Kore- Mattis said China “contin-
an leader Kim Jong Un as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis appear at news confer- ues to work these issues.”
American concern grows ence following a Diplomatic and Security Dialogue Meeting with a Chinese delegation including North Korea conducts
State Counselor Yang Jiechi and military Chief of Joint Staff Fang Fenghui, at the State Department
over the North’s accelera- in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. about 90 percent of its
tion toward having a nu- Associated Press trade through China,
clear missile that can strike which maintains that it
the U.S. mainland. Mattis said Trump’s com- provokes and basically Their meeting took place implements the U.N. sanc-
Trump tweeted ahead of mentary “represents the plays outside rules, plays against a backdrop of tions properly. Chinese offi-
Wednesday’s talks that American people’s view of fast and loose with the high tensions on the divid- cials were not immediately
Beijing’s efforts to sway North Korea right now. We truth,” Mattis told a news ed Korean Peninsula. On available for comment af-
Pyongyang weren’t work- see a young man go over conference. Tuesday, the U.S. flew two ter the talks. Beforehand,
ing. That comment came there healthy and with a At the talks, Mattis and Sec- supersonic B-1B bombers China said it was hoping for
amid outrage in Washing- minor act of mischief” and retary of State Rex Tillerson there in a show of force. “positive outcomes” from
ton over the death of Otto come home on the verge hosted Chinese foreign pol- South Korea’s Defense Min- Wednesday’s dialogue.
Warmbier days after the of death. “What you are icy chief Yang Jiechi and istry said the bombers en- It had long pushed for a
comatose American stu- seeing I think is the Ameri- Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief gaged in routine exercises resumption of U.S. nego-
dent was released from im- can people’s frustration of the People’s Liberation with its fighter jets aimed at tiations with North Korea,
prisonment in North Korea. with the regime that pro- Army’s joint staff depart- deterring the North. which currently appears a
Defense Secretary Jim vokes and provokes and ment. “China understands that remote prospect.q
Filing: ‘Confidential’ documents undercut voting fraud claim

By ROXANA HEGEMAN a separate draft amend- to publicize those materials
Associated Press ment to the National Voter are meant “to annoy, ha-
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Registration Act. rass and embarrass” him.
Kansas election official The ACLU wrote that Ko- Kobach told the court that
is trying to hide materials bach has “made state- the ACLU apparently in-
that undercut his public ments to the public, the tends to use the material
claim that substantial num- Court, and to high officials to fuel an ongoing public
bers of noncitizens have including the President, campaign against him,
registered to vote and that suggesting that noncitizen and that removing the
documentary proof-of-cit- registration fraud is a seri- confidential marking was
izenship requirements are ous, widespread problem not necessary to advance
necessary to stop it, civil while simultaneously en- the litigation in Kansas. He
rights advocates contend deavoring to conceal doc- contended that the ACLU
in a court filing. uments that tell a different is using the court as a tool
The American Civil Liberties story and to avoid answer- to attack his character.
Union obtained the materi- ing questions about those The ACLU called his ac-
als as part of its federal civil In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris documents. Sunlight is the cusation “meritless and re-
lawsuit in Kansas challeng- Kobach, right, holds a stack of papers as he meets with then best disinfectant under the grettable” in its filing. It ar-
ing the state’s voter reg- President-elect Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club circumstances.” gued that while it may be
istration law that requires Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Kobach’s spokeswoman, uncomfortable for Kobach
people to submit citizen- Associated Press Samantha Poetter, said in to be publicly challenged
ship documents such as a an email that they would on his record on voting
birth certificate, naturaliza- move the confidential des- was photographed taking not comment. Kobach, a rights, the ability to criticize
tion papers or U.S. passport. ignation that Kansas Sec- into a November meeting gubernatorial candidate, public officials is “an inte-
It asked a federal judge in retary of State Kris Kobach with then President-elect argued in an earlier court gral part of American de-
a filing late Tuesday to re- placed on materials he Donald Trump, as well as filing that the ACLU’s efforts mocracy.”