Mr Hu said China, which last week opposed the deployment of a US aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea as a provocation, wanted a “calm and rational response” from all sides. “The fragile security situation on the Korean Peninsula, if not properly handled, could lead to further escalation of tension, or even run out of control, which is not in the common interests of all parties concerned,” the state-run Xinhua quoted Mr Hu as saying. The telephone call between the two leaders came as diplomatic divisions between China and the US over how to handle North Korea showed little sign of narrowing. The US secretary of state was on Tuesday due to host the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea in a meeting aimed at hammering out a strategy to deal with North Korea’s increasing belligerence. The US and its two allies have rejected a Chinese call for an emergency meeting of the Six Party talks as impossible until North Korea shows it is serious about embarking on the road to disarmament. Their discussions will take place against the backdrop of continuing tensions on the Korean peninsula where South Korea conducted live fire artillery exercises from more than 20 locations on Monday, including five islands on its disputed sea border with the North. Pyongyang reacted angrily to the five-day drills, with its official news agency again warning that South Korea was taking the peninsula to the brink of war.
“The frantic provocations on the part of the puppet group the South Korean government are rapidly driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an uncontrollable extreme phase,” the official news agency said. South Korea’s government, which has been attacked at home for failing to respond fiercely enough to the North’s bombardment, dismissed the North’s threats. “I don’t dwell on North Korea’s response as it does not deserve even a little consideration,” said the South’s new Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin, who last week said Seoul would not hesitate to order retaliatory air strikes if the North attacked again.
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