China Pushes for N. Korea-U.S. Talks

[VolcanoJen]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_US_NKOREA?SITE=OHDAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Excerpt:

China has dispatched a top diplomat to Washington to push for talks between the United States and North Korea over the North's suspected nuclear weapons program.

Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, Beijing's most experienced envoy on the North, is expected to brief U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday about his recent visit to Pyongyang.

Dai's trip is the latest in a flurry of diplomacy by China aimed at calming tensions over the North's nuclear program, which the United States believes is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.

China is pressing for another round of talks between Washington and Pyongyang similar to those Beijing hosted in April.

[jpgray]

1. Ok, now this is officially a big deal

When China did the "oops turned off your oil for a second" I thought they were controlling this--maybe not? Is this just their own little power play?

[teryang]

2. Another distorted report

"China's diplomatic urgency may be fed by concerns that Pyongyang is pushing the issue to the brink of conflict."

The Americans are the ones "tightening the noose" by cutting off fuel supplies and food aid and threatening a blockade and a surgical strike.

"The nuclear dispute flared in October when North Korea reportedly told a top U.S. official it had restarted a nuclear program in violation of a 1994 accord."

The "nuclear dispute" started when the Americans refused to perform its obligations under the 1994 Agreed Framework. The Americans also refused to negotiate the IRBM missile issue which the N.Koreans offered to do on multiple occasions. A review of events makes it apparent that the American regime did not intend to perform its obligation to build light water reactors in return for the shutdown of the Korean nuclear program, hoping instead that the economic collapse of N.Korea would lead to regime change.