US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said today that a UN Security Council vote to impose sanctions on North Korea showed that world powers were united behind a push for a denuclearised Korean peninsula. Speaking at a security forum in Manila, Washington’s top diplomat said Kim Jong-Un’s regime must halt ballistic missile tests if it wanted to talk to the United States about resolving the standoff. “It’s quite clear in terms of there being no daylight between the international community as to the expectation that North Korea will take steps to achieve all of my objectives, which is a denuclearised Korean peninsula,” he said. On Sunday, Tillerson held separate talks in Manila with foreign ministers Wang Yi of China and Sergei lavrov of Russia, both of whom he said were in support of a tough stance on Pyongyang’s arsenal.