Events: US-ROK military exercise today, ending the same day senior officials to visit China Asahi
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 Xinhua comprehensive report today, the final day of the US-ROK joint military exercises. Meanwhile, for the increasingly tense situation in the Korean Peninsula, the last few days the parties are taking mediation.
US-ROK military exercise to upgrade the scale of
Analysis of the US-ROK joint military exercise in the most prominent feature of South Korean media that the simulation is the first time in the Yellow Sea to intercept and search suspected weapons of mass destruction carrying North Korean vessels, which means that exercise has risen, "Proliferation Security Initiative" (PSI) level .
Yonhap said the North Korean maritime interdiction operations to prevent the violation of the NLL, South Korea to share information of suspicious North Korean ships, to send troops to intercept the aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft and Lynx helicopters under the cover into the joint search for strength. Infiltration and in the air defense exercises, the U.S. and South Korea deployed Aegis destroyers, to support the U.S. 7th Air Force and Korean Air Force planes.
November 30, South Korean National Assembly Defense Committee decided to increase the defense budget next year to about 31.3 trillion won, compared with the budget proposed by the South Korean government after more than a 714.6 billion won.
Defense Minister Jin Tairong said the Korea-US joint military exercises in the end, North Korea may launch a new round of provocation. He also said that if North Korea launched military provocations, it will take strict punitive measures.
US-Japan and South Korea will hold talks with Foreign Minister
According to Japanese government-related sources, the Japan-US ROK government is to December 7 in Washington, DC (local time 6) the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Foreign Ministers held talks.
It is reported that Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, South Korean Foreign Minister, proposed by China Jinxing Huan will head the six-party talks to discuss an urgent consultation. North Korea is expected to start building light-water reactors and uranium enrichment and other issues will also be talks on issues, when the Japan-US cooperation and collaboration of Korean and will be reconfirmed.
According to reports, South Korean Foreign Minister Jinxing Huan November 30 for Kazakhstan to attend the scheduled 1 to 2 December at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting, and plans during the meeting, met with Clinton and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Yonhap news said, Jinxing Huan also sought during the meeting with the French, British Foreign Minister and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other dignitaries meeting.
Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN on November 29 that the United Nations Security Council is examining ways within the shelling and North Korea to open new uranium enrichment program to respond.
Asahi official visit to China the same day
November 30, Foreign Ministry spokesman at a regular press conference confirmed that Hong Lei, the Japanese Foreign Ministry Secretary for the Asia vegetarian wood Chiu Lung, Speaker of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, arrived in Beijing on the same day Cuitai Fu.
According to him, Chiu Lung fast wood with the Chinese government to China's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula and met with Wu Dawei. The Cuitai Fu Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee should be invited, will be November 30 to December 4 for an official goodwill visit to China. During the visit, will China and the DPRK bilateral relations, parliamentary exchanges and other exchange views on issues of common concern. Besides Beijing, the delegation will also visit Jilin visit.
United States Foreign Ministers meeting in Washington next week, Hong Lei, said: "In the current situation, we call on all parties do more to help ease the situation on the peninsula, is conducive to peace and stability of the peninsula."
Head of emergency consultations on the six-party talks, said Hong Lei, head of the Chinese side proposed to hold six-party talks is the starting point for an urgent consultation to ease tension on the peninsula, for the parties to provide a platform for contact and dialogue. We believe that the Chinese side suggests that the parties will seriously consider and make a positive feedback. Issue back to the peninsula early dialogue and consultation to the track, the common interests of all parties, the general expectation of the international community.
Deputy Foreign Minister to discuss Russian-US
Russian Foreign Ministry statement said on November 29, in charge of Asian affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei wave Luoda Fu King James Steinberg and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula.
Russian Foreign Ministry Information Department press release said the Russian side stressed the need to ease tensions in the region, only through peaceful political and diplomatic means to resolve inter-Korean disputes. (Editor: Yang) |
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