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White House Pushing Diplomacy While Keeping North Korea Options Open

April Ryan
April 17, 2017

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 10, 2016 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, watches a paradefrom a balcony at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. China’s simmering feud with South Korea over the deployment of an American missile defense system is just the latest in a string of foreign policy challenges piling up on President Xi Jinping’s desk as he prepares to host the annual summit of the G20 nations next month. North Korea, Taiwan, the South China Sea and the United States all pose difficult challenges and pose the risk of exhausting China’s crisis management capacity and the ruling Communist Party’s aura of total control. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

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Diplomacy is being worked right now when it comes to North Korea and its missile testing. Meanwhile, The White House is not taking anything off the table to deal with the situation. More from White House Correspondent April Ryan.

April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan