With concerted efforts, world can still resolve DPRK issue peacefully

The annual Preventive Priorities Survey of New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, released on Monday, has listed a possible armed confrontation between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as the "top conflict" to watch in 2018.

In Northeast China's Jilin province that borders the DPRK, the Jilin Daily published a full page of "common sense" advice on Dec 6, counseling readers how to protect themselves from a nuclear explosion, which local authorities later said was routine publicizing of national defense knowledge.

In Oslo, Norway, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, while receiving the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony on Sunday, warned that humankind's destruction is just one "impulsive tantrum away".