China on Monday called for all sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not “add oil to the flames” amid an exchange of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Asked how concerned China was the war of words between Mr. Trump and North Korea could get out of control, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang described the situation as highly complex and sensitive.
All sides should “not further irritate each other and add oil to the flames of the tense situation on the peninsula at present”, Mr. Lu told a daily news briefing.
