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Update: Trump fires top diplomat Tillerson, names Pompeo successor

March 13, 2018

Donald Trump Tuesday sacked his top diplomat Rex Tillerson and named current CIA chief Mike Pompeo to succeed him, ending a rocky tenure by the Texas oilman who had been sidelined on the world stage by the mercurial president.

US 'surprise' at North Korea talk offer: Tillerson

March 09, 2018

Djibouti - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday said Washington had been surprised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's willingness to hold direct talks with the US on the nuclear standoff in the Korean peninsula.

Tillerson defends foreign policy record at year's end

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017

The United States' top diplomat defended his country's foreign policy record on Wednesday, saying progress had been made in the last year to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions and to counter the "immense challenges" posed by Russia, China and Iran.

Trump’s house of cards

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 08, 2017

Re: “Kudos to Tillerson,” Letters, October 8.

Tillerson hopes Thailand’s elections ‘proceed as scheduled’

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 09, 2017

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed hope that Thailand will return to civilian control next year when the country holds general elections promised by the post-coup government.

US pushes Asian nations on North Korea

SUNDAY, AUGUST 06, 2017

MANILA - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to build pressure on North Korea after securing a new round of United Nations sanctions as he launched into two days of high-level diplomacy Sunday.