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jpak

(41,741 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 01:26 PM Apr 2017

Japan, Philippines Urge U.S., North Korea to Avoid Brink of War

Source: Bloomberg

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte joined China in pleading with the leaders of North Korea and the U.S. to tone down their nuclear brinksmanship, even as he agreed with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that negotiations to end the standoff would be useless.

“We have to caution everybody including those who’d give the advice to the two players because you have nuclear warheads to just show restraint,” Duterte said Saturday after wrapping up a meeting of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila.

Abe, in London, said talks with North Korea shouldn’t be tried while the communist nation continues its “provocative acts.” He spoke as China’s official news agency, Xinhua, urged President Donald Trump to “tread cautiously” with the U.S. and North Korea locked in a “tit-for-tat” vicious cycle. Duterte compared the standoff to two countries playing with toys “and those toys are not to entertain.”

North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test early Saturday came hours after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson mounted an effort at the United Nations to rally pressure against Kim Jong Un’s regime. Trump has stepped up pressure to prevent Kim from obtaining the capability to hit North America with a nuclear weapon. He has threatened to act unilaterally if China fails to do more to curb its neighbor’s activities.

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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-29/japan-philippines-urge-u-s-north-korea-to-avoid-brink-of-war

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Japan, Philippines Urge U.S., North Korea to Avoid Brink of War (Original Post) jpak Apr 2017 OP
It's no use. tenorly Apr 2017 #1
Problem is, it's not just Trump. Aristus Apr 2017 #2
And the Tangerine Turd OldHippieChick Apr 2017 #3
Those countries are going to experience the nuclear fall out kimbutgar Apr 2017 #4
While Trump is a clown Egnever Apr 2017 #5
I wonder what would happen if Trump and Kim Jong Un were to meet and share yuiyoshida Apr 2017 #6

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
1. It's no use.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 02:04 PM
Apr 2017

Cheeto has loaded up on far too much defense stock to let this opportunity pass him by.

Aristus

(66,093 posts)
2. Problem is, it's not just Trump.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 02:49 PM
Apr 2017

Few Presidents, other than Jimmy Carter, have ever expressed sincere concern for the people who get caught in the middle when military powers are rattling their sabers.

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
3. And the Tangerine Turd
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 03:57 PM
Apr 2017

has already requested Carter keep out of it because -God forbid - we can't appear to want peace.

kimbutgar

(20,876 posts)
4. Those countries are going to experience the nuclear fall out
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 04:31 PM
Apr 2017

How dumb is chump not to look at a map and realize this?

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
5. While Trump is a clown
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:51 PM
Apr 2017

Touting out the president of the Philippines who is killing his own people over drug use is pretty silly.

yuiyoshida

(41,761 posts)
6. I wonder what would happen if Trump and Kim Jong Un were to meet and share
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 08:44 AM
Apr 2017

Some Marijuana brownies together. Think we might have a shot at nipping this in the bud???



Where is Cheech and Chong when we need them??

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