US VICE PRESIDENT IN NUCLEAR-FREE KOREAN PENINSULA
Vice President Pence says a group of US aircraft carriers is on its way to waters off the Korean Peninsula The US Vice President, Mike Pence, says his country and Australia will work closely together to address the threat from North Korea.
Mr Pence also said an aircraft carrier strike group, led by the USS Carl Vinson, heading for waters off the Korean peninsula would be in the Sea of Japan within days.
He said Washington believed that a nuclear-free Korean peninsula could be achieved peacefully because of the Trump administration's new engagement with China.
Vice President Pence said the United States would honour a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".
Mr Pence told a joint news conference with the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney that the deal would be subject to vetting, and that honouring it "doesn't mean that we admire the agreement".
Under the deal, agreed with former President Barack Obama late last year, the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on South Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
In return, Australia would resettle refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The White House has already said it would apply "extreme vetting" to those asylum seekers held in the Australian processing centres seeking resettlement in the United States. Mr Pence was speaking on the final leg of a 10-day tour of the Asia-Pacific region that had already taken him to South Korea,Japan and Indonesia
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