China says North Korea nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully

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China says North Korea nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully

 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses the audience during a news conference at Bolivar Palace in Panama City, Panama September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Lemos/Files

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - The North Korean nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart during a meeting at the United Nations, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

 

The United States and South Korea, and separately Russia together with China, started military drills on Wednesday in a show of force against North Korea, which has repeatedly defied the United Nations to conduct nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

 

Wang said in a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday that China would strictly implement U.N. Security council sanctions and stressed that "parties directly involved" must also take action and responsibility.

 

"The current deepening vicious cycle must be broken. Resuming peace talks is an equally important step in implementing security council resolutions," Wang said, according to a statement on the foreign ministry website.

 

Russia has supported China's "suspension-for-suspension" proposal, where the United States and South Korea would agree to halt joint military drills while North Korea halted missile and nuclear tests.

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke about keeping pressure on North Korea using economic sanctions imposed through the United Nations, the White House said on Monday.

 

Trump and Xi spoke on the phone days after Trump and his aides publicly discussed potential military action against North Korea. Trump said on Friday he was "more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat are both effective and overwhelming".

 

Pyongyang carried out the latest in a rapid series of missile launches by firing another mid-range ballistic missile over Japan on Friday, soon after its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, in defiance of United Nations sanctions and other international pressure.

 

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Christian Shepherd; Editing by Paul Tait)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-09-19

[sweatalot]

It must be resolved period

 

peacefully if possible and only  if this does not give  time for kim to finish his catastrophic plan.  Better an ugly catastrophe now then a much bigger one that cannot be calculated later.

[Searat7]

China has enough clout to force a meeting between the North Korean dictator and senior Chinese foreign affairs officials. This would be a good first step toward the negotiating table

[Credo]

China will do nothing because they are quietly sitting by for the fireworks.   Russia has a good chance of backing NK, not because it is pro-NK, but because it is anti-US.   China will then quietly make a huge land grab.   It's how they do things.   

[Ruffian Dick]

Not sure if China has created this situation, but they are milking it for all they're worth. They get to portray the reasonable peacekeepers next to the wild, war-monger Americans. They're playing chess while Trump plays tiddly-winks.

[hawker9000]

"China says North Korea nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully"

OK, so YOU'RE in the best position to resolve it peacefully (if not all that amicably...) - RESOLVE IT already!   Sheesh.   But you can't, can you?  Having usurped half the western Pacific, you're not in much of a position to tell Kim what he can & can't have, are you?

 

The problem is the successfully intimidated dimwits who equate "resolution" with "capitulation", a POV which only stiffens FATBOY's  "resolve" - as well as Beijing's - and keeps worsening the problem.

 

 

 

 

 

[craigt3365]

8 hours ago, Searat7 said:

China has enough clout to force a meeting between the North Korean dictator and senior Chinese foreign affairs officials. This would be a good first step toward the negotiating table

China no longer has the clout with NK is use to have.  They've got no leverage and are still covertly supplying NK with oil and banking resources.

 

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2111440/how-north-korea-evades-un-sanctions

 

Quote

 

How North Korea evades UN sanctions

Smuggling and front companies are just two of the methods Pyongyang uses to get around embargoes to pursue its nuclear weapons programme, according to UN and US reports

 

 

[mikebike]

1 minute ago, craigt3365 said:

They... ...are still covertly supplying NK with oil and banking resources.

Isn't that the definition of leverage?

[craigt3365]

13 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Isn't that the definition of leverage?

Not enough to have an impact.  Russia is also supplying NK with goods and services.

 

I'll try to find the article from the BBC.  It laid out why China no longer has leverage over NK.  NK is actually becoming hostile to China.

[mikebike]

4 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

Not enough to have an impact.  Russia is also supplying NK with goods and services.

 

I'll try to find the article from the BBC.  It laid out why China no longer has leverage over NK.  NK is actually becoming hostile to China.

Ultimately this type of leverage hurts the regular peeps more than the regime anyway...

[craigt3365]

9 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Ultimately this type of leverage hurts the regular peeps more than the regime anyway...

But the ultimate responsibility for the people lies with their leaders.  If the regular people suffer, it's their fault.

[mikebike]

7 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

But the ultimate responsibility for the people lies with their leaders.  If the regular people suffer, it's their fault.

Are you blaming people in a totalitarian regime for the totalitarian regime? A govt willing to use violence against its own people to retain power is very difficult to displace from within.

[Ruffian Dick]

17 hours ago, hawker9000 said:

"China says North Korea nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully"

OK, so YOU'RE in the best position to resolve it peacefully (if not all that amicably...) - RESOLVE IT already!   Sheesh.   But you can't, can you?  Having usurped half the western Pacific, you're not in much of a position to tell Kim what he can & can't have, are you?

 

The problem is the successfully intimidated dimwits who equate "resolution" with "capitulation", a POV which only stiffens FATBOY's  "resolve" - as well as Beijing's - and keeps worsening the problem.

Consider whether "rocket man" is shooting missiles into Chinese territory.

 

To my mind, this resembles so much someone with a pitbull dog on a leash, saying, "Geez, I'm not sure how much longer I can control this deadly dog, oh did he bite you? So sorry, bad dog!"