Bush sent envoy to China over Korea arms

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By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad The New York Times Thursday, February 10, 2005


WASHINGTON Driven by new evidence that North Korea may have begun selling nuclear materials around the world, President George W. Bush sent an emissary last week to see China's president, Hu Jintao, and urge him to intensify diplomatic pressure on the North to give up its weapons program, according to senior U.S. and Asian officials.
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The emissary, Michael Green, delivered a letter from Bush to Hu that, in the words of one U.S. official, "was written to underscore the greatly heightened urgency" of the problem.
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According to Asian officials, the Chinese promised to send a delegation to Pyongyang this month but also advised Bush against making public pronouncements about the North Korean situation, the way he regularly talked about the threat posed by Iraq in the year leading up to the March 2003 invasion.
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Bush has never publicly mentioned the new information about suspect North Korean nuclear sales, which was reported by The New York Times last week.
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