Photos: YONHAP/RODONG SINMUN/dpa/APGermany on Wednesday urged North Korea and the United States to show "restraint" after apocalyptic threats from President Donald Trump and Pyongyang in their mounting war of words. He urged the international community to "thoroughly implement" the latest round of sanctions against North Korea approved by the United Nations Security Council. He insisted that while the call for restraint was directed at both Washington and Pyongyang, Germany saw North Korea as the clear "provocateur in this case and the source of our worries". Trump sharply intensified his rhetoric against North Korea on Tuesday, threatening "fire and fury" over its weapons programmes. North Korea raised the stakes just hours later, saying it was considering missile strikes near US strategic military installations on the Pacific island of Guam.

Source: The Local August 09, 2017 10:54 UTC