China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged an end to US-South Korean military manoeuvres Wednesday as well as a stop to North Korea’s nuclear programme to calm tensions on the peninsula….
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged an end to US-South Korean military manoeuvres Wednesday as well as a stop to North Korea’s nuclear programme to calm tensions on the peninsula. He said Pyongyang’s continuing nuclear tests were “a clear violation of UN resolutions”, but stressed that persisting with military manoeuvres around the peninsula “is not in the spirit of the resolutions either”. “Security and stability are very fragile at the moment and the danger is great of a new conflict breaking out at any time, ” Wang said at a joint press conference with German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel. “We can’ t risk even a one percent possibility of war, ” he said, warning that a conflict would have “unimaginable consequences”. “Therefore, we call on all sides to be prudent and refrain from any actions or words that could lead to new provocations, ” he said.
