China says it’ll remain neutral if North Korea attacks US first

Chinese authorities have revealed in a statement that it will stay neutral if North Korea strikes the US first.

Beijing is taking that stance despite a mutual defence pact between the Asian allies.

That much was revealed in an editorial by the nationalistic Global Times tabloid which said Washington and Pyongyang were playing a “reckless game” that could lead to “miscalculations and a strategic war”.

Read also: “Get your acts together” or face extraordinary “trouble”, Trump tells North Korea

“China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, China will stay neutral,” the editorial said.

However, it added: “If the US and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.”

The US and North Korea have recently been engaged in a war of words with Pyongyang describing Trump’s “fire and fury” threat if an American territory is targeted or attacked by Pyongyang as a “load of nonsense”.

Sensing that his “fire and fury” rage at North Korea may not have struck the right chord, President Donald Trump fired another warning at Kim Jong-Un’s government to “get their acts together” or face extraordinary “trouble”.

 

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