China and South Korea want dialogue with North Korea, not a US pre-emptive nuclear strike

China and South Korea are both in agreement about North Korea – dialogue, not war. On the other hand, the Trump administration’s military posturing is making it hard for such dialogue to occur.

Leading in to South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s four-day trip to China this Thursday to meet with President Xi Jinping, efforts are already underway to figure out an amicable and bilateral solution to the North Korea threat.

China’s position is that the US should use more peaceful methods in dealing with North Korea, while America is already taking a unilateral war-like stance against the rogue nation.

As for South Korea, there are 25 million people living near the border with the North, which makes a potential nuclear attack a problem they do not want.

At the top of the agenda during the Moon-Xi summit will, of course, be an attempt to craft a reasonable solution that North Korea can be made to accept. But the US THAAD missile defense system deployment in South Korea is already a thorn in the side of more peaceful efforts.

The 64 million dollar question: Can China and South Korea quickly resolve the matter before it escalates to a point where the US has no choice but to strike the first blow against North Korea?

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