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China busca solution al conflicto de N Korea
Beijing recibe a enviado de N Korea.
Japon y Korea rechazaron la propuesta China de llamar a ulna reunion de emergencia entre seis paises para resolver la crisis.
China esta empeniada en controller el dan producido por los wikileaks que indicaban que China facilito la exportation de partes de misiles de N Korea y que hizo caso omiso al period de US. Asi mismo se revelo que China ordeno el Cyber ataque a Google y a las computadoras del gobierno Americano.
ASIA NEWSDECEMBER 1, 2010
China Seeks North Korea Solution
Beijing Hosts Envoys as Leaked Cables Show Its Struggle With a Difficult Ally
By JEREMY PAGE
Senior North Korean official Choe Thae Bok, center, arrives in Beijing Tuesday for a five-day visit to his country's chief ally.
BEIJING—A senior North Korean official arrived in Beijing for talks about the crisis on the Korean peninsula on Tuesday, as a new batch of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables showed a China caught between loyalty to Pyongyang and pressure from the U.S. and others to take a tougher stance.
The U.S., Japan and South Korea have dismissed Beijing's proposal to hold emergency talks to address North Korea's deadly artillery raid on a South Korean island last week.
Washington said such a meeting would amount to "PR activity" unless North Korea changes its behavior. The U.S. and its allies have urged China to use its political and economic influence to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and halt further attacks on the South.
Choe Thae Bok, the chairman of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, arrived in Beijing for a five-day visit during which he is scheduled to hold talks on the crisis with Wu Bangguo, the No. 2 in China's Communist Party leadership.
Mr. Choe, who is also secretary of the ruling Workers' Party, is expected to seek assurances of China's continued support for the North Korean regime, as well as its opposition to the joint military exercises that the U.S. and South Korea began staging in the Yellow Sea on Sunday, analysts said.
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South Korean war veterans took part in an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul Tuesday. The poster depicts leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Eun.
China continued to press for an emergency meeting in Beijing in December between the regional powers involved in talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program. The so-called six-party talks between the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan have been stalled since last year.
"Under the circumstances it is imperative and important to bring the peninsula issue back to the track of dialogue and consultation as soon as possible," China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Tuesday.
Japan and South Korea say they are planning to send their foreign ministers to a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington next week. Akitaka Saiki, the chief of Japan's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau and the country's top North Korea envoy, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, but there were no immediate details about their discussions.
The challenges facing China were highlighted by the latest batch of diplomatic cables leaked by the WikiLeaks website, which portray U.S., Chinese and South Korean officials struggling to find a common strategy to deal with North Korea.
The first batch of cables, released Sunday, contained allegations that China brushed off U.S. requests to stop the export of North Korean missile parts through Beijing, and that Chinese leaders ordered cyberattacks on Google Inc. and U.S. government computers.
The second batch, made public Monday, showed Chinese officials expressing frustration with North Korea, with one describing the regime there as a "spoiled child."
One cable quoted Dai Bingguo, China's state councilor for foreign affairs, telling James B. Steinberg, the U.S. deputy secretary of state, in September 2009 that on a recent visit to North Korea he "did not dare" to be too candid in a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Another quoted South Korea's former Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo, telling U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Kathleen Stephens that China was ready to support a reunified Korea under Seoul's control.
Mr. Chun, now South Korea's national security adviser, expressed his frustration with Wu Dawei, China's top envoy on North Korea, describing him as "an arrogant, Marx-spouting former Red Guard" who knew nothing about North Korea or nuclear nonproliferation, according to the cable.
Mr. Chun argued that there were "sophisticated" Chinese officials who were ready to "face the new reality" that North Korea was of little value to China as a buffer state, the cable said. Mr. Chun also said Japan was opposed to a reunified Korea.
Other cables reflected very different views among Chinese officials. One quoted Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's former prime minister, who has close relations with Chinese leaders, saying Beijing didn't want North Korea to develop nuclear weapons, but also didn't want a reunified Korea under Seoul's control.
Mr. Lee said Ma Xiaotian, the deputy chief of general staff of China's People's Liberation Army, had suggested to him that the North Korean regime would be able to survive on its own without Chinese economic aid, according to the cable.
Mr. Lee also said that he thought Japan would develop nuclear weapons if North Korea did, and that Chinese officials must have factored that into their calculations, according to the cable.
China said Tuesday that it didn't want the cables' release to disturb relations with Washington and asked the U.S. to "properly handle relevant issues."
Chinese experts said the cables showed China was increasingly frustrated with North Korea but was finding it hard to develop a new policy.
"There's been a lot of debate among scholars and politicians about how to deal with [North Korea]. A lot of people want to change the policy, but the traditional school is winning," said Cai Jian, a Korean Studies professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.