China urges Korean calm, warns over naval drills
SEOUL (Reuters) – China said on Friday it was determined to prevent an escalation of this week’s violence on the Korean peninsula but warned against military acts near its coast as U.S. and South Korean forces prepared for exercises in the Yellow Sea. South Korean soldiers walk along a barbed wire fence to their checkpoint near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 52 km (32 miles) north of Seoul, November 26, 2010. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) North Korea, stepping up its rhetoric just days after it shelled a South Korean island, said the four-day naval drills starting on Sunday risked pushing the region towards war. The U.S. military said the exercises, planned…
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