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Clinton pushes China to join sanctions against North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday stepped up pressure on China to back international action against North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship, calling peace and security on the Korean peninsula “a shared responsibility” between Washington and Beijing.
“Now we need to work together again to address the serious challenge posed by the sinking of the South Korean ship,” Mrs. Clinton said after two days of high-level talks with Chinese officials.
“No one is more concerned about peace and stability in this region as the Chinese,” she said. “We know this is a shared responsibility and in the days ahead we will work with the international community and our Chinese colleagues to fashion an effective, appropriate response.”
But her Chinese counterpart in the discussions, State Counselor Dai Bingguo, barely mentioned the ship-sinking incident in his remarks at the ceremony. China, North Korea's main ally, has remained neutral and Dai merely repeated his government's standard line on the matter, calling only for the “relevant parties” to “calmly and properly handle the issue and avoid escalation of tension.”
A team of international investigators concluded last week that a torpedo from a North Korean submarine tore apart the South Korean warship Cheonan. The North has flatly denied involvement and China, the communist country's main ally, has remained neutral.
The U.S. wants China to support UN Security Council action against North Korea.
Mrs. Clinton said she and other U.S. officials had “very productive and very detailed” discussions with Chinese about the incident and “the Chinese understand the gravity of this situation.”
However, she could not say if any progress had been made in persuading the Chinese to back UN action.
“We expect to be working together with China in responding to North Korea's provocative action and promoting stability in the region,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters.
“I think it is absolutely clear that China not only values but is very committed to regional stability and it shares with us the goal of a denuclearized Korean peninsula and a period of careful consideration in order to determine the best way forward in dealing with North Korea,” she said.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Clinton have both said Washington fully supports the measures South Korea is taking, including referring the matter to the Security Council, which could impose new sanctions on the North or condemn the ship sinking.
Mrs. Clinton said she would be visiting South Korea on Wednesday to consult with Lee about the response to the incident and said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would be making a similar trip Friday. She said the U.S. and China would compare notes on those meetings.
Meanwhile, tensions between the Koreas soared Tuesday, as South Korea blared propaganda broadcasts into North Korea after a six-year halt and Pyongyang said its troops were bracing for war.
One Seoul-based monitoring agency reported that North Korea's leader ordered its 1.2 million-member military to get ready for combat. South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report.
The South's restarting of psychological warfare operations — including radio broadcasts into the North and placing loudspeakers at the border to blast out propaganda — were among measures the government announced Monday to punish Pyongyang. The South is also slashing trade and denying permission to North Korean cargo ships to pass through South Korean waters.
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