North Korea posing ‘grave threat’ to world: foreign affairs minister
EDMONTON — Canada’s foreign minister says North Korea’s nuclear program poses a “grave threat” to the security of the world and called on the country to fall into line with the international community.
Chrystia Freeland said Canada stands by allies like the United States when they are threatened but ways must be found to de-escalate the situation, which has been marked by North Korean missile tests and heated rhetoric from the country’s leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
“We need to find ways to pressure and persuade North Korea that the path that it is on … this path can have no positive ending for North Korea,” she said following a meeting with agricultural groups in Edmonton on Friday.
“This is a grave situation. It is a grave threat. … It’s time for North Korea to really cease its actions.”