Corbyn tells belligerent leaders to calm down
Jeremy Corbyn has urged Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un to “calm down” amid escalating tensions between the US and North Korea.
The Labour leader said you “cannot play fast and loose with nuclear weapons”, adding that Britain had a role to play in bringing the two leaders “back from the brink”.
President Trump has warned the North Korean regime to “get their act together” or face extraordinary trouble, suggesting he had been too mild when he vowed to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea if it continued to threaten the US.
Speaking to the Press Association in Bristol, Mr Corbyn said: “We cannot play fast and loose with nuclear weapons and nuclear threats because do you know what - a nuclear explosion doesn’t stop at national borders, it doesn’t stop at the vicinity where the bomb drops.”
The Labour leader, an anti-war campaigner, said the result of a nuclear strike would go on for decades, adding: “I ask them both, calm down.”