CHINA / National
Hu urges restraint on missile test crisis
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-07 05:59
China is committed to maintaining peace and stability on the Korean
Peninsula and opposed to any actions that might aggravate the situation,
President Hu Jintao said yesterday.
U.S. President George W. Bush (R) and first lady Laura Bush (2nd L)
gather on the South Portico of the White House with China's President Hu
Jintao (2nd R) and his wife Liu Yongqing at a welcoming ceremony in
Washington, April 20, 2006. [Reuters]
Hu made the remarks when talking to his US counterpart George W. Bush
about Pyongyang's launch of several missiles on Wednesday.
In the telephone conversation, Bush said that the United States was
concerned about the current situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Washington still adheres to the commitment of resolving the Korean
Peninsula issue by diplomatic means, Bush was quoted as saying in a
statement from China's Foreign Ministry.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) acknowledged for the
first time yesterday that it had launched the missiles. It vowed to
conduct more tests and threatened to use force if the international
community tried to stop it.
"We will go on with missile launch exercises as part of efforts to
bolster deterrence for self-defence in the future, too," DPRK's official
KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
"The DPRK will have no option but to take stronger physical actions of
other forms should any other country dare take issue with the exercises
and put pressure upon it."
The DPRK reportedly launched at least six missiles from its east coast
early on Wednesday, including a long-range Taepodong-2, which some
experts said could hit Alaska.
The Republic of Korea (ROK) press reported yesterday that the DPRK had
three or four short- or medium-range missiles on launch pads ready for
firing.
US Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns told CNN yesterday that his
country would work to muster international pressure on the DPRK to "cease
and desist" such actions.
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