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China today asked the US and North Korea to exercise restraint and avoid provoking each other, saying it is very concerned over their escalating war of words.
Tensions have dramatically risen on the Korean peninsula after North Korea early this month conducted its biggest nuclear test, which its state-run KCNA news agency described as a hydrogen bomb.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have traded increasingly threatening and personal insults as Pyongyang races towards its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the US.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a media briefing in Beijing that a way out can be found when the parties stop the provocative statements.