‘Hit the brakes’: China to US & N. Korea as both exchange strike threats

‘The US and North Korea must “hit the brakes” and find a peaceful resolution to their ongoing crisis, China’s foreign minister said. It comes amid a war of words and mutual strike threats between Washington and Pyongyang.
The remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi were made during a Tuesday phone conversation with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
“The most important task for the US and North Korea is to ‘hit the brakes’ on their mutual needling of each other with words and actions, to lower the temperature of the tense situation and prevent an ‘August crisis,’” Wang said during the conversation, according to a statement published on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website.’
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