U.S. Warning to China Sends Ripples to the Koreas

President Obama & President Hu Jintao

President Obama warned President Hu Jintao  that if China did not step up its pressure on North Korea, the United States would have to redeploy its forces in Asia to protect itself from a potential North Korean strike on American soil, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Report: N. Korea’s Kim, China’s Hu to Meet

Kim Jong-Il and Chinese President Hu Jinato were scheduled to meet in Beijing today. Speculation says that this visit may lead to the restart of the sic-party nuclear talks. “It is predicted that the summit talks between North Korea and China will be held on Thursday,” an unnamed source was quoted as saying.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is expected to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing on Thursday in a move that some hope will trigger the return of six-party denuclearization talks, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

Kim is believed to have arrived in China early Monday by train via the border city of Dandong, Yonhap reported earlier this week, citing unnamed sources in Seoul and Beijing.

In Nuclear Summit, Obama Seeks Global Help in Sanctioning Iran

President Obama Hosts the Nuclear Security Summit

President Obama used an unprecedented summit on nuclear terrorism Monday to press global leaders to support further isolating Iran for its nuclear activities, and the White House said that China’s leader had agreed to cooperate with tightening U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic.

The Nuclear Security Summit is the first large meeting of world leaders focused on how to keep nuclear materials away from terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. The event drew 36 heads of state and delegations from 10 other countries to the city, which became a blur of flashing police lights and speeding black convoys.