South Korea wants a peaceful resolution to the current standoff between North Korea and the USA. Dan and Catherine teach you the language the world’s media is using to discuss this story.

Key words and phrases:

provocations
actions or speech causing an angry reaction

overshadowed
made to seem less important

mum
silent

Try our quiz to see how well you’ve learned today’s language: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/english-you-need/unit-28/session-2

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