China urges US, North Korea to be ‘cautious’, ease tensions

Image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea’s KRT on July 4, 2017, shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, watching the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea’s northwest. (KRT via AP Video, File)

BEIJING: China urged the United States and North Korea on Friday to be “cautious” with their words and actions after the two sides stepped up their bellicose rhetoric over Pyongyang’s weapons program.
Responding to a question about North Korea threatening to fire missiles toward Guam and US President Donald Trump’s tough warnings against Pyongyang, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a statement that the two nations should seek to “ease tensions.”