North Korea, calling on them to take the threat of "nuclear peril" seriously."We must not sleepwalk our way into war," said Guterres on Tuesday at the annual summit of the United Nations
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General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
"When tensions rise, so does the chance of miscalculation. Fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings," he said in his first state-of-the-world report since taking the top job at the UN on January 1.
"The solution must be political. This is a time for statesmanship."
His message on "fiery
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" rhetoric was implicitly directed at North Korean leader Kim
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...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
, but also at the United States and President Donald Trump
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, who later warned of "totally destroying North Korea" if it does not back down.
"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Trump told the UNGA, shortly after Guterres' speech.