China calls for calm as North Korea builds tension

The Cambodia News.Net
Sunday 28th November, 2010

China has called for talks between the two Koreas as tension builds on the divided peninsula.

Anger in the region has been sharpened since North Korea bombarded a South Korean island last Tuesday, provoking world condemnation, retaliatory rhetoric from the South and war games being conducted between the United States and South Korea.

China has now called for emergency talks about the crisis and has already spoken to representatives from the neighbouring Koreas.

China, an ally of the North, has called for diplomatic meeting of six nations in response to the tension.

The two Koreas, the US, China, Japan and Russia have been invited.

China has proposed the heads of delegation should meet in early December in Beijing to exchange views on the major issues of concern.

But China has made clear it will not preside over a resumption of the disarmament discussions, which North Korea walked out of two years ago.