US Secretary Of State In China For North Korea Talks.
Rex Tillerson meets Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ongoing threat of war on the Korean peninsula.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will hold top-level talks in China on Saturday as the United States looks to an economic squeeze of North Korea it hopes will compel the reclusive country's retreat from nuclear arms and missile programmes.
The US sees China as critical to averting a military confrontation with Pyongyang, which is fast advancing towards its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the United States.
Tillerson will hold talks with China's top diplomat State Councillor Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi as well as President Xi Jinping.
The Russian Foreign ministry said on Friday, Moscow is prepared to work with Pyongyang to try to find a peaceful resolution to the North Korean missile crisis.
The comments came in a statement issued by the ministry after a meeting between Russian ambassador-at-large Oleg Burmistrov and Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea's foreign ministry.
Choe also met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, the ministry said.
"The Russian side confirmed its readiness to combine efforts in the interests of finding ways to solve the problems in the region by peaceful, political and diplomatic means," it said.
China says it will strictly and fully enforce UN resolutions against North Korea and its Commerce Ministry on Thursday said North Korean firms and joint ventures in China and overseas would be shut down by January, in line with the latest UN resolution.
Einar Tangen, a political analyst and adviser to China's government, said there's not much more Beijing can do to curtail Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
"From the US side, a nuclear armed North Korea capable of delivering a strike against US territory is unacceptable. So you have two groups who are not willing to budge an inch. What we need here is diplomacy, not deal-makers. It will require outside-the-box thinking by China and Russia if they want to resolve this."
US Senator John McCain, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said this week he was sceptical.t
US officials have declined to discuss operational plans, but acknowledge no existing plan for a preemptive strike could promise to prevent a counterattack by North Korea, which has thousands of artillery pieces and rockets trained on South Korea's capital Seoul - a city of 25 million people.
Rex Tillerson meets Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ongoing threat of war on the Korean peninsula.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will hold top-level talks in China on Saturday as the United States looks to an economic squeeze of North Korea it hopes will compel the reclusive country's retreat from nuclear arms and missile programmes.
The US sees China as critical to averting a military confrontation with Pyongyang, which is fast advancing towards its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the United States.
Tillerson will hold talks with China's top diplomat State Councillor Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi as well as President Xi Jinping.
The Russian Foreign ministry said on Friday, Moscow is prepared to work with Pyongyang to try to find a peaceful resolution to the North Korean missile crisis.
The comments came in a statement issued by the ministry after a meeting between Russian ambassador-at-large Oleg Burmistrov and Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea's foreign ministry.
Choe also met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, the ministry said.
"The Russian side confirmed its readiness to combine efforts in the interests of finding ways to solve the problems in the region by peaceful, political and diplomatic means," it said.
China says it will strictly and fully enforce UN resolutions against North Korea and its Commerce Ministry on Thursday said North Korean firms and joint ventures in China and overseas would be shut down by January, in line with the latest UN resolution.
Einar Tangen, a political analyst and adviser to China's government, said there's not much more Beijing can do to curtail Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
"From the US side, a nuclear armed North Korea capable of delivering a strike against US territory is unacceptable. So you have two groups who are not willing to budge an inch. What we need here is diplomacy, not deal-makers. It will require outside-the-box thinking by China and Russia if they want to resolve this."
US Senator John McCain, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said this week he was sceptical.t
US officials have declined to discuss operational plans, but acknowledge no existing plan for a preemptive strike could promise to prevent a counterattack by North Korea, which has thousands of artillery pieces and rockets trained on South Korea's capital Seoul - a city of 25 million people.
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