Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I will certainly raise any issues we have with concern to human rights and governance regularly if confirmed.”

We are prepared to have an open dialogue with the North Koreans without preconditions. We want to pursue diplomacy.

This is part of their playbook. They have done this before. They did it in 2014, and it was not accepted.

the UN Security Council to press Russia to support.

It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.