US President Donald Trump says the US military is “locked and loaded” to respond to any attack by Kim Jong-un’s forces, and Mr Turnbull has confirmed Australia would back the United States in any confrontation with the isolated nation.
But Professor Leahy urged restraint, saying “we need to do a lot of talking … [and] play as much as we can behind the scenes to stop this thing getting out of control”.
“I think we need to perhaps take a deep breath and … run as quickly and as hard as we can down the diplomatic and the economic options, because it’s a pretty horrid thought to think that in the space of just a few days — a week or more — we could be at war,” he said.
“It’s going to look bloody ugly.
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