China's Xi calls for peaceful resolution of North Korea tensions in call with Trump

[madokie]

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tensions on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steams towards the region.

Xi's call with Trump came after an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned that the Korean peninsula was the closest it has been to a "military clash" since Pyongyang's first nuclear test in 2006.

Tension has escalated sharply amid concerns that reclusive North Korea could soon conduct a sixth nuclear test or more missile launches and Trump's threat of unilateral action to solve the problem.

Trump had already ordered the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to head for the Korean peninsula in an attempt to deter North Korea's nuclear and long-range missile ambitions, which it is developing in defiance of United Nations resolutions and sanctions.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN17E0B6

[Warren DeMontague]

1. I don't even want to try and think what these phone calls are like.

[SaschaHM]

2. About damn time....

It shouldn't have taken our madman for China to realize that they needed to put a handle on theirs.

[HoneyBadger]

3. China is returning Korean coal and buying US coal

Since coal is what Korea sells to eat, "peaceful" must mean "starvation"