China works to ease North-South Korea tension

[ProSense]

Source: BBC

China's Foreign Ministry has begun working to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, holding a series of talks with Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang.

Officials said their priority was to avoid a recurrence of Tuesday's violence, which saw North Korea fire artillery shells at a southern island.

The South responded with its own fire, and announced joint military exercises with US forces would begin on Sunday.

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The forthcoming four-day US-South Korea naval manoeuvres were organised well ahead of this week's attack, but they have angered both North Korea and China.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11850821

[PeaceNikki]

1. Glad to hear this.

[pinto]

2. Seems there's some convoluted diplomatic posturing going on. There's also this from Reuters -

China issues warning ahead of U.S.-South Korea drills

By Ju-min Park and Miyoung Kim
SEOUL | Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:04am EST

SEOUL (Reuters) - China warned on Friday against military acts near its coastline ahead of U.S.-South Korean naval exercises that North Korea, days after shelling a South Korean island, said risked pushing the region toward war.

Beijing's warning came as the Seoul government named a career soldier as its new defense minister amid mounting criticism of the response to Tuesday's attack by North Korea, its heaviest bombardment since the 1950-53 Korean War.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E6MN0SQ20101126

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