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November 30, 2010

U.S. Rejects Six-Party Talks With North Korea
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In news from Asia, the Obama administration has rejected a Chinese
proposal to hold emergency multiparty talks with North Korea. Beijing
had called for the six-party talks to resume after a Northern Korean
artillery barrage killed four people, including two civilians, on a
South Korean island last week. Meanwhile, a diplomatic cable leaked by
Wiki Leaks indicates China supports the reunification of the Korean
peninsula if North Korea were to collapse. Cheng Guoping, the Chinese
ambassador to Kazakhstan, was reported to have told U.S. Ambassador
Richard Hoaglan that "China hopes for peaceful reunification in the
long-term, but he expects the two countries to remain separate in the
short-term".



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