Six-nation talks in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear programme resumed after a nine-month hiatus.
Gus Hall here and the hard-liners in Havana, Beijing and North Korea.
He will spend time in Seoul and Tokyo as well as in Beijing, North Korea's last remaining ally and its major trading partner.
After its team returned to Beijing from North Korea, the U.N.
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The Tuesday ultimatum comes just after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a tour to coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally, as well as with Seoul and Tokyo.
Instead of reciprocating the gesture as Beijing assured us North Korea would the regime pocketed the concession and became even more intransigent.
Earlier, China's foreign minister promised Washington that Beijing would push North Korea to return to the talks, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
Seven men and two women were flown home Tuesday via China despite a request from South Korea that Beijing not repatriate them, the Chosun Ilbo daily newspaper in Seoul reported Thursday, citing unidentified South Korean government officials.
Tuesday's meeting between Xi and Lew came amid great misgivings in Beijing over Washington's renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific region and Washington's concerns over China's reluctance to pressure its mercurial ally North Korea and Beijing's alleged state-sponsored computer hacking.
The firings came after Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea, visited Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul last week for talks on dealing with North Korea.
Siegfried Hecker, a nuclear scientist based at Stanford University who has visited North Korea's nuclear facilities seven times, emphasized at a conference in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday that China is the only country that can penalize North Korea if it chooses to, saying Beijing "holds the key to the price" North Korea will pay if it moves forward with its weapons pursuit.
Because the specter of North Korea's collapse could potentially destabilize the Korea peninsula, Beijing may continue to shield Pyongyang.
And Republican lawmakers have pressured Mr. Kerry and the White House to not let Beijing slide on the North Korea issue.
But recently he's made much bigger bets in Vietnam and South Korea and in Beijing China, where he is building a mall.
Chinese media and experts voice concern over rising regional tensions, amid pressure on Beijing to rein in North Korea after its third nuclear test.
Speaking at a media briefing in Beijing after arriving from North Korea, Mr Schmidt said he had been in Pyongyang to discuss a free and open internet.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Beijing is unaware of South Korea Chosun Ilbo's claims of slush funds linked with Kim Jong-un in Shanghai and other Chinese cities.
With China, analysts believe the country's official response to South Korea's launch will be more muted but that North Korea will pressure Beijing to bend to its own line.
The fall of North Korea could pave the way for the United States to establish military bases closer to Chinese territory, or the creation of a unified Korea over which Beijing might have less influence.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to China earlier this month, made little headway in trying to persuade Beijing to publicly rebuke North Korea after it threatened to attack U.S. and allied targets in North Asia and the Pacific.
Pang Zhongying, a professor of international relations at Beijing's Renmin University, says North Korea is becoming "a headache" and is no longer heeding Beijing's concerns.
The firings came after Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea, wrapped up a visit to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul last week for talks on dealing with North Korea.
The firings come after Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea, wrapped up a visit to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul this week for talks on dealing with North Korea.
Since North Korea cannot count on Beijing fully, it has turned to the nuclear option as a deterrent.
He plans to press Beijing to more aggressively muscle North Korea away from its military and nuclear threats, senior U.S. officials said.
Speculation over Beijing's stance on North Korea, new bird flu cases, more discoveries of poisoned livestock and a dockers' strike are topping headlines in China's media today.
But Shi Yinhong, an international-relations expert at People's University in Beijing, says that if North Korea keeps testing nuclear weapons, the veil of friendship could soon be shattered.
The agreement followed two days of talks between the U.S. and North Korea last week in Beijing, which U.S. officials over the weekend said yielded little progress, making Wednesday's announcement a surprise.
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