China calls for urgent talks on North Korea
China’s nuclear envoy is calling for an emergency meeting of North Korean disarmament talks to discuss the tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Wu Dawei said chief negotiators at the six-nation nuclear talks are being asked to come to Beijing in early December for the emergency session.
He said in a statement today that the international community, particularly members of the six-party talks, are deeply concerned about recent developments on the peninsula.
China was slow at first to react after ally North Korea pummelled a South Korean island with an artillery barrage on Tuesday, but has quickened its diplomatic intervention in recent days.
