"All sides should do more to help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula and not to take turns in showing strength," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang in a written statement.
Geng made the remark after the DPRK military announced that it is working on plans for a missile strike near the US Pacific territory of Guam and US President Donald Trump said that threats to the US from Pyongyang would be met with "fire and fury".