MISSILES: China warns North Korea to stop provocation to avoid “head-on collision”

Asian giants China has called on North Korea to suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for halt of S Korea-US war games.

China warns that continued missile activities by North Korea could boil over provocations which could result to a “head-on collision”.

“To defuse the looming crisis on the (Korean) peninsula, China proposes that as a first step, the DPRK may suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for the halt of the large-scale US-ROK exercises,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, using the acronyms for the two Koreas.

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He also said South Korea is making a mistake in deploying the US anti-missile defence system THAAD, which he said undermined China’s security.

“The two sides are like two accelerating trains coming towards each other with neither side willing to give way,” Wang said at a press conference on the sidelines of China’s annual parliament session.

“The question is: Are the two sides really ready for a head-on collision? Our priority now is to flash the red light and apply the brakes on both trains.”

Two days ago, North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan’s northwest coast in an apparent show of force.

The move is coming days after Pyongyang promised retaliation over US-South Korea military drills it sees as a preparation for war.

 

 

 

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