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China: Use of force against North Korea is ‘unacceptable’

By Joel Gehrke

Published December 15, 2017 5:10pm ET

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China: Use of force against North Korea is ‘unacceptable’ — "China has made greater efforts and paid a higher price than anyone else," Wu said, according to a U.N. translator. "It is irresponsible to doubt what China has done." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) | Mary Altaffer

An American attack on North Korea is “unacceptable” to China, a senior diplomat warned the United Nations Security Council Friday.

“The option of use of force is unacceptable,” Wu Haitao, the Chinese deputy ambassador to the U.N., said Friday. “There is no military option when it comes to the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and [the] resort to force can only bring disastrous consequences to the peninsula.”

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