US and China agree to curb nuclear N Korea

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Source: Al Jazeera

Officials say US and Chinese presidents have pledged following talks to work towards denuclearising Pyongyang.

The US and China have agreed that they cannot accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and pledged to work closely to end Pyongyang's weapons programme, a senior US national security official has said.

Tom Donilon said the US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached "quite a bit of alignment'' on the subject of curbing North Korea's ambitions during a meeting on Saturday.

"They agreed that North Korea has to denuclearise, that neither country will accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state and that we would work together to deepen co-operation and dialogue to achieve denuclearisation," he said on Saturday, at the end of two days of meeting between Obama and Xi at an estate in the California desert.

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1. Good. nt

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2. This new Chinese president seems much more "Obama-esque" when it comes to diplomacy.

After this last round of NK saber-rattling, I think the Chinese now realize that their plan of having Pyongyang as a "buffer state", completely backfired. With NK authorizing a nuclear first strike (with or without the current ability), all it did was bring Trident submarines and B-2 Stealth Bombers to the Peninsula. Not really what China wants.