CORBYN: WIND DOWN NUCLEAR RHETORIC

Labour leader’s plea on North Korea

THE threat of catastrophic nuclear conflict is once again a real possibility.

As Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un trade threats and tensions escalate, the danger is growing.

We have just marked the anniversary of the last time a nuclear bomb was used in conflict, by the US on Nagasaki in Japan 72 years ago.

Well over a hundred thousand people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from what were small atomic bombs. Any nuclear conflict over North Korea today would kill millions of innocent people in the Korean peninsula and beyond, with devastating fallout in China, Japan and elsewhere.

Trump and Kim must immediately wind down the war of rhetoric, as the German chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded. The risks of an unintended escalation into full-blown conflict are too great for the whole world.

North Korea’s latest missile test has been rightly condemned internationally. But the war of words between Washington and Pyongyang risks derailing efforts to

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