United States Vice President Mike Pence requested Latin American nations to cut ties with North Korea in an attempt to halt nation's development of nuclear missiles.
As per media reports, Pence in a speech following a meeting with Chile President Michelle Bachalet on Wednesday said, "The United States places great importance on the ongoing isolation of the Kim [Jong-un] regime and we strongly urged Chile today, and we urge Brazil, Mexico and Peru to break all diplomatic and commercial ties to North Korea."
"The U.S will continue to bring the full range of American power until North Korea abandons its nuclear & ballistic missile programs," Pence tweeted.
United States President Donald Trump has hailed North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un's decision of scrapping his plan to attack Guam as a "very wise and well reasoned decision".
"Kim Jong Un of North Korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision. The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacceptable!" Trump tweeted.
Trumps' reaction came as North Korea earlier threatened to attack Guam and other US territories in the Pacific region, saying a strike plan was ready "to put into practise in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment" on Kim's instruction.
However, Kim later on decided not to launch an attack but warned he could change his mind.
Guam is home to a US military base that includes a submarine squadron, an airbase and a coastguard group and is armed with the US Army's missile defense system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, the same system recently installed in South Korea.
