China urges caution by all on nuclear issue

Beijing hopes related parties will speak and behave with caution, and not follow the old path of "showing aggressiveness" by turns, after the recent exchange of fiery words between Pyongyang and Washington, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Friday.

"The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is complex and sensitive. China hopes related parties can speak and behave with caution, and do more to help ease tensions and enhance mutual trust," he said in a statement released on the ministry's website.

Geng's remarks came after US President Donald Trump warned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Thursday of "an event the likes of which nobody's seen before", following Pyongyang's disclosure of a plan to fire missiles near the US territory of Guam.