UNITED NATIONS -- The foreign ministers of Russia and China took the stage Thursday at the General Assembly to push again for a return to dialogue with North Korea over its illegal nuclear weapons program, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump warned the same assembly of a possible military response to Pyongyang's provocations.
"We're witnessing a very dangerous confrontational spiral around the DPRK," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. He was using an abbreviation for the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.