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20:49, 11-Aug-2017
Trump: Military option against DPRK 'locked and loaded'
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US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that a military option against the DPRK was "locked and loaded," his latest salvo in an escalating war of words with Pyongyang.
"Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely," he warned. "Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!"
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The war of words between Washington and Pyongyang intensified recently, as the DPRK military announced that it was working on plans for a missile strike near the US Pacific territory of Guam and Trump said that threats to the US would be met with "fire and fury."
On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry urged calm among all parties involved in the DPRK nuclear crisis.
"All sides should do more to help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and not to take turns in showing strength," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang stressed in a written statement.