Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all sides to exercise restraint when dealing with North Korea during a phone call with US President Donald Trump, as Japan conducts joint drills with a US aircraft carrier strike group headed for Korean waters.
Key points:
- Mr Xi told Mr Trump that all sides should avoid doing anything to worsen the tense situation
- Japanese destroyers have joined the US carrier group for drills in the western Pacific
- North Korea will celebrate the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its Korean People’s Army tomorrow
The carrier group was sent by Mr Trump for exercises in waters off the Korean peninsula as a warning, amid growing fears North Korea could conduct another nuclear test soon in defiance of United Nations sanctions.
Angered by the approach of the US carrier group, a defiant North Korea said at the weekend it was ready to sink the USS Carl Vinson and on Monday called the deployment “an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade”.
“The United States should not run amok and should consider carefully any catastrophic consequence from its foolish military provocative act,” Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said in a commentary.
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