SEOUL - South Korea and the United States on Sunday began joint naval exercises that will include live fire and bombing drills as hermetic North Korea deployed missiles close to the Yellow Sea and warned that it will turn the region into "a merciless shower of fire" if its territory is violated.PREVIOUSLY: "Korean Joint Exercises in Futility."
With tensions high in the region, China on Sunday called for an emergency session in December of the long-suspended six-way talks over North Korea's nuclear program. The call for new talks, announced at an unusual Sunday afternoon foreign ministry briefing in Beijing, came from Wu Dawei, China's top nuclear negotiator.
China has been under intense pressure to rein in its often erratic ally, North Korea, and Beijing this weekend was engaged in an intense round of diplomacy to try to prevent the recent crisis -- the most serious in months -- from escalating into a full-scale conflict. The six party talks include China, Japan, Russia, the two Koreas and the United States.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
China Calls for North Korea Talks
At WaPo:
Of course China wants talks. They are afraid of a unified Korean Peninsula that is allied with the West and Japan. However, China does use N. Korean misadventure as a proxy display of their displeasure at the West. China is not to be trusted and further efforts need to be used to contain them.
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