A senior British diplomat has described any military response to North Korea as “the worst possible option,” insisting that it would likely lead to daunting and inconceivable outcomes, including the killing of hundreds of thousands of people.
Sir Simon Gass, who was the political director of the UK Foreign Office until last year and represented London in the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran, made the remarks at a ceremony by British think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), to mark the release of a paper on the persisting crisis in the Korean Peninsula, insisting that Pyongyang has achieved a nuclear capability, The Guardian reported Friday.
According to the assessment of the North Korea situation in the RUSI paper, a potential “preventive war” waged by US President Donald Trump would probably escalate quite swiftly. It further pointed out that resulting combat would “not be surgical or short.”
It said war could…