thousands, if not millions of casualties should some kind of war break out in the e-john and elsewhere. region and elsewhere. macron wants to try to work with president trump and the rest of the world leaders here to enforce the sanctions, to be as tough as possible on north korea, but this must be a diplomatic and economic pressure, he said, and not a military solution, not at all. christian is going to have more on her interview with president macron coming up later on his program on cnn international. christian, stand by. jeff zeleny, you re over at the united nations. the speech, i sense and you may have a better appreciation of this than i did, got sort of polite applause from the international delegations, but certainly not enthusiastic applause. wolf, certainly that is true. polite applause in a couple areas, but not much applause throughout the course of the 41-minute speech. perhaps not surprisingly, it s
editor phil mudd. will ripley, for people just joining us, you had breaking news about the first chinese response to all this. tell us what they re saying. i ll read you the response once again. china, what they tend to do in situations like this, they stand in the middle and tell the united states to calm down, tell north korea to calm down. what they don t want to see is an accidental war break out on their doorstep. there s growing fear here this morning that this is exactly where this path is leading, not that either side necessarily wants a military conflict, but one action could lead to a chain reaction. the statement reads, quote, the current situation on the korean peninsula is complex and sensitive. china calls on all relevant sides to uphold the broad direction of resolving the north korean nuclear issue through political means, avoid remarks and actions that could aggravate
to guam. this isn t the first time that north korea has threatened this island. this is the westernmost kind of location for territorial u.s., and, yes, there are a number of american military facilities here like andersen air force base which are used by bombers that have flown over the korean peninsula here, in shows of force, clear shows of force to the north korean regime. wolf? we re going to get back to you, ivan watson. now on the island of guam, a u.s. territory. will, you re in beijing for us. so what s the response of the chinese government to president trump s threat to unleash what he calls fire and fury at north korea? reporter: china really trying to tone things down, as they often do when tensions escalate on the peninsula, they don t want to see a war break out on their doorstep, they don t want to see hundreds of thousands of north koreans flooding over
when he delegated responsibilities and when he can, delegating north korea, a decision coming up. let me ask you, who is winning the message war between the u.s. and china. president saying that china has to get involved and china has control over north korea. chinese foreign minister saying if they let a war break out on the peninsula, they must shoulder that historical culal culpability. he told the wall street journal the chinese president explained to him this contact in north korea and history between china and north korea and this was news to him. i think that was perhaps the most telling admission in this messaging back and forth that the president is really learning this as he goes and learning a lot more now about this conflict having spoken with china about
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