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(URGENT) Pres. Lee made clear to Chinese official resumption of six-way talks "not timely": Cheong Wa Dae
Originally posted by SaturnFX
What? what happened?
did they speak already? Are we at war? are the nukes coming? should I run to the vault? -looks for his vault-tek suit-
gah...now the internet has turned useless...
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Now what will be important is SK-US response... probably laugh at China and say that China isn't helping...
edit on 28-11-2010 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SaturnFX
@#$%
24 hour news channel my arse
I got a choice...watch CNN heros rerun for the 30th time...Lockup on MSNBC, or Conservatism and Reagen on Fox.
you would think one of these 24 hour news channels would..you know...be talking news!!!
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Now what will be important is SK-US response... probably laugh at China and say that China isn't helping...
Chinese government blinked! Fail!edit on 28-11-2010 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
Could China's urging that the talks continue, in Beijing, be a veiled way of telling NK that China does not, and will not, support any aggressive actions by NK?
In short, has China just "written off" North Korea?
Originally posted by Curio
Originally posted by SaturnFX
What? what happened?
did they speak already? Are we at war? are the nukes coming? should I run to the vault? -looks for his vault-tek suit-
gah...now the internet has turned useless...
What happened was that China totally failed to take this situation by the scruff of the neck. What was needed was to go give Kim a smack around the head, or tell the USA/SK to go play somewhere else. Instead it looks like they've suggested a friendly get-together in a few weeks to talk it over.
If China wants to be a world player then it needs to grow a pair.
Tuesday 23rd November, 11:55 AM JST
U.S. envoy says six-party talks on N Korea won't resume
TOKYO — Talks among six nations to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs in return for aid and other concessions won’t resume while Pyongyang works on a new uranium enrichment facility, a U.S. envoy said Tuesday.
# #ROK Pres. Lee told the visiting Chinese officials that earlier today here in Seoul. #Koreas 13 minutes ago via TweetDeck
# #ROK Pres. Lee says it's not timely to discuss resuming the 6-way talks. 13 minutes ago via TweetDeck
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told a visiting senior Chinese official that Seoul was not interested in the early resumption of the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear program as it is more urgent to deal with Pyongyang's belligerence, Lee's office Cheong Wa Dae said. In a meeting with Lee earlier in the day, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo raised resuming the long-stalled nuclear talks that it chairs, according to senior presidential secretary for public affairs Hong Sang-pyo.
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told a visiting senior Chinese official that Seoul was not interested in the early resumption of the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear program as it is more urgent to deal with Pyongyang's belligerence, Lee's office Cheong Wa Dae said.
In a meeting with Lee earlier in the day, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo raised resuming the long-stalled nuclear talks that it chairs, according to senior presidential secretary for public affairs Hong Sang-pyo.
(LEAD) S. Korea orders journalists to leave Yeonpyeong Island SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense ministry ordered journalists on a border island attacked by North Korea's shelling last week to leave by the end of Sunday, citing concerns of possible "provocative action" by the North in the wake of the South's joint naval drills with the United States.
"At this stage, it is unpredictable what kind of a provocative action North Korea will take using the South Korean-U.S. joint drills as a justification," the ministry said in a statement. "So we ask journalists on Yeonpyeong Island to leave within today."
The South's military "cannot guarantee" the safety of journalists in case of North Korea's provocation, it said.