Boris Johnson says ‘no one in their right minds’ wants to see Donald Trump destroy North Korea as he tells US President that there are NO good military options
BORIS JOHNSON has urged President Trump not to destroy North Korea, urging him that there ARE other options to dealing with the communist dictator.
The Foreign Secretary said "there is a last chance to sort this out", but only China can help to tackle the threat from tyrant Kim Jong-un.
And he said it could be possible to bring North Korea "to the table" to discuss peaceful solutions.
He spoke out just hours after the US President threatened to "totally destroy" the country if he had to.
In a fiery UN speech yesterday Mr Trump called the North Korean leader "rocket man" and insisted he was on a "suicide mission for himself".
The US President also branded the nuke-wielding Kim regime "depraved" before appearing to threaten military action against the crackpot country if the dictator does not change course.
But Britain's Foreign Secretary urged him to tone it down.
Mr Johnson, who has been embroiled in a bitter cabinet split over Brexit this week, called on President Trump to help put pressure "on the Chinese to tighten the sanctions on oil".
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He said the country had been acting in a "mature way" because they don't want to "cause a catastrophe and mass migrations". But he said there was much more to be done to bring the situation to a peaceful resolution.
Mr Johnson "No one in their right minds wants to see the US driven to use its military options – I do not see any good military options.
"And that is why all the pressure has to be on the Chinese to tighten the sanctions on oil."
Theresa May is set to have private talks with President Trump at the UN later today.
Mr Johnson also used the interview to hit out at Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her response to the "racial prejudice" from the Burmese army against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
He said she had "not been going enough to express people's legitimate outrage at the treatment of the Rohingya."
"It is an appalling way to treat innocent people and I am afraid it is driven by racial prejudice," he said.
And he agreed with the UN Secretary General Anthonio Guterres that their actions looked like "ethnic cleansing".
Theresa May announced that Britain would withdraw its engagement with Burma's military until the violence is stopped.
In a round of TV interviews in New York on Tuesday, she said: "We are very concerned about what's happening to the Rohingya people in Burma. The military action against them must stop.
"We've seen too many vulnerable people having to flee for their lives.
"Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese government need to make it very clear that the military action should stop.
"The British Government is announcing today that we are going to stop all defence engagement and training of the Burmese military by the Ministry of Defence until this issue is resolved."
The news comes as it was revealed that a North Korean defector allegedly saw 11 musicians obliterated by anti-aircraft guns in a public execution ordered by the leader.
Hee Yeon Lim, 26, the daughter of a high-ranking soldier from Pyongyang, fled to South Korea last year and has told of the horrors she witnessed while part of the secretive Kim regime's inner circle.
Speaking with , she described one occasion where she was pulled out of school by soldiers and forced to watch a group of musicians accused of making a pornographic video being slaughtered.