Xi-Trump call: China urges 'peaceful' North Korea solution

[nitpicker]

Source: BBC

Xi-Trump call: China urges 'peaceful' North Korea solution

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From the section US & Canada

China's President Xi Jinping has called for a "peaceful" resolution to tensions over North Korea, in a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, Chinese state media said. On Tuesday Mr Trump tweeted that the US was not afraid of acting alone on North Korea if China would not help.

Tensions have risen on the Korean peninsula after the dispatch of US warships to the region. North Korea reacted with anger, saying it would defend itself "powerfully".
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Their phone call took place on Wednesday morning, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. The White House has not released any details.

During the conversation, Mr Xi said China "is committed to the target of denuclearisation on the peninsula, safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula, and advocates resolving problems through peaceful means," CCTV said.

Earlier on Wednesday, editorials published by Chinese state media outlet Global Times called on North Korea to "hit the brakes for peace", noting that the US "doesn't plan to co-exist with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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[Javaman]

1. I don't think the orange menace does "peace". nt

[cstanleytech]

5. The orange one is a minor issue as it would be difficult for him to actually be able to

initiate a war that wouldnt end up with him in prison without the OK of Congress.
Lil Kim probably wont really start a major war or launch a nuke either unless the west actually would invade because he knows if he did that China would likely then step in and remove him from power followed very shortly afterwards with him in front of a firing squad.

[DK504]

2. Chinese state media outlet Global Times called on North Korea to "hit the brakes for peace"

"On Tuesday Mr Trump tweeted that the US was not afraid of acting alone on North Korea if China would not help. "

And the Chinese are becoming the diplomatic leaders. Nahhh, we have run the rails at all, right of the cliff.

DonnaRhea is sending more naval assets to the region. Tells Maria Bartalimo, "An armada, you won't believe it. I won't be like President Obama and wait 4 months then tell them what we are doing."

Lookie he learned a new word. As Kim Jung Krazy preps to shoot a nuke somewhere. Great, just fucking great. He needs to have a "accident".

[Equinox Moon]

3. He is an ignorant immature aggressive alpha bully without a conscience.

Congress had better get that bill passed removing the authority of the executive branch being able to order a first strike with nukes. Congress would have to authorize first strike.

[elleng]

4. Xi and Trump Discuss Rising Tensions With North Korea.

BEIJING — China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Trump spoke by phone on Wednesday about the escalating tensions with North Korea as a prominent Chinese state-run newspaper warned the North that it faced a cutoff of vital oil supplies if it dared test a nuclear weapon.

The phone call, reported by China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, came hours after Mr. Trump cautioned Beijing in a Twitter message and a television interview that it needed to help Washington rein in North Korea, a Chinese ally. During the call, which was initiated by Mr. Trump, Mr. Xi said that the matter should be solved through peaceful means, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Tensions escalated further on Wednesday as reports said the Japanese Navy would join the United States Navy strike group led by the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in its mission off the Korean coast. Those joint exercises would take place as the American armada passed through waters close to Japan, Reuters said. . .

North Korea on Saturday is celebrating the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the nation. Its current leader, Kim Jong-un, his grandson, is expected to use the occasion to either stage a nuclear weapons test or conduct a missile test, in direct defiance of the United States and its main patron, China.

American television networks and some newspapers have been invited to report on a military show in the capital, Pyongyang, this weekend.

In an unusually strong editorial, Global Times, a newspaper that sometimes reflects the thinking of China’s leadership, said Beijing would support stiffer United Nations sanctions, including “strictly limiting” oil exports to North Korea should it conduct a nuclear test.

The editorial, indicating nervousness about what the North might do on Saturday, said that the peninsula was the closest to “military clashes” since 2006.

“China, too, can no longer stand the continuous escalation of the North Korean nuclear issue at its doorstep,” the editorial said. “Instead of accepting a situation that continues to worsen, putting an end to this is more in line with the wish of the Chinese public.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/world/asia/trump-china-north-korea-xi-jinping.html?

[EX500rider]

6. Actually they went a little further then asking for a peaceful resolution:

A Chinese daily newspaper (Global Times) known for being a state-controlled media outlet used to test new ideas published an item today pointing out that if North Korea does not abandon its nuclear weapons program (which is seen as a threat to China) then China will bomb the nuclear facilities and North Korea will have to live with that or suffer further military and economic consequences they cannot respond to (by attacking China). This article also warned the United States not to contemplate doing this, as North Korea was for neighbor China to deal with, not some distant superpower. Within hours the article was removed from the Global Times website, but many people had seen it and it still existed in Google cache. In other words, China was telling North Korea that stronger measures from China were now a possibility. At the same time the U.S. was making it clear that the kind of attack on Syria the U.S. recently carried out could be tried on North Korea. China agrees that it might come to that but they insist that the bombs or missiles be Chinese.

https://strategypage.com/qnd/china/articles/20170412.aspx