Sunday, January 23, 2011

Obama pushes China to pressure Pyongyang

According to the U.S. daily The New York Times, Barack Obama warned his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao for a possible redeployment of U.S. forces in Asia to counter any possible attack from North Korea if Beijing does not put pressure on Pyongyang. The U.S. warning, "first expressed in a phone call to Mr Hu last month and repeated during a private dinner Tuesday at the White House, persuaded China to adopt a tougher vis-à-vis North Korea, "wrote the newspaper on Thursday quoted an unidentified senior U.S.

official. The newspaper said the warning from the Chinese president visits the United States "has opened the way for a resumption of dialogue between North and South Korea." South Korea agreed Thursday to the proposal from North Korea to begin talks on military "high level" to ease tensions, but warned again that the North had admitted his responsibility in two serious incidents in 2010.

In March, 46 South Korean sailors died in the sinking of the sloop Cheonan, awarded by an international survey in Pyongyang (which denies), and the north end of November bombed the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, killing four people. During his visit to Washington, President Hu was the first concern, as the United States, "a new uranium enrichment plant in North Korea.

But there is no immediate sign that Beijing intends to punish the North for this challenge, "the New York Times. The pressure of the U.S. president" reinforced by that of government officials as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, have pushed China to adopt a line closer to the United States in the management of North Korea, "says the paper yet." Without the help of China, the mainstay of the North Korean government, Obama said Mr.

Hu that the U.S. would be forced to take long term measures, such as redeploying their forces, adapting their defense or strengthen their military maneuvers in Northeast Asia, "he told The New York Times the same top U.S. official said. Asked on the plane Air Force One carrying Mr. Obama on Friday in upstate New York where he was visiting a factory, his spokesman Robert Gibbs would not confirm the contents of the article in the New York Times, but said the U.S.

had tried to convey to China their profound concern about Pyongyang's actions.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 6:06 AM

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