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May 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State of affairs Hillary Clinton urged international action to answer North Korea’s suspected jumpy of a South Korean warship, just before she arrived in China for talks set to deal with the crisis.
The U.S. wants China to help evolve a response to North Korea, an American official told reporters yesterday in Shanghai. China is an ally of North Korea and has hosted now stalled global talks on reining in the regime’s nuclear arms effort. The U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said South Korea doesn’t scantiness war to break out over the crisis.
The evidence that North Korea fired a torpedo and sank the ship is “overpowering and condemning,” Clinton said at a press briefing in Tokyo with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada during a abruptly stop before she flew on to China. The March 26 sinking of the 1,200-ton Cheonan killed 46 South Korean sailors.
