During a press conference on United States’ strategy in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the opportunity to praise North Korea for showing restraint in its missile testing program. Tillerson praised that North Korea has not conducted any missile testing since the United Nation’s Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea’s exports which are aimed to reduce export revenues by almost a billion dollar. He added that a path to future dialogues with the isolated regime looks possible in near future.

Here is the full comment from the Secretary on North Korea,

“And before taking your questions, I do want to make one comment on North Korea. I think it is worth noting that we have had no missile launches or provocative acts on the part of North Korea since the unanimous adoption of the UN Security Council resolution. And I want to take note of that; I want to acknowledge it. I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we’ve not seen in the past. We hope that this is the beginning of this signal that we’ve been looking for that they are ready to restrain their level of tensions, they’re ready to restrain their provocative acts, and that perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialogue. We need to see more on their part, but I want to acknowledge the steps they’ve taken thus far. I think it’s important to take note of that.”

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