North Korea crisis: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping speak by phone
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump spoke on the phone, with the Chinese president calling for restraint as international concern mounted.
Kirsty Needham is China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump spoke on the phone, with the Chinese president calling for restraint as international concern mounted.
"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him," said the North's military commander.
China has called for perseverance in seeking a political solution to the North Korean nuclear problem, in the wake of an escalating war of words between North Korea and Donald Trump.
A top international tourist resort was among the sites worst hit by a 7-magnitude earthquake that struck the Jiuzhaigou scenic area in China's Sichuan province on Tuesday evening.
Mean tweets and the veiled threat of a trade war put aside, China is preparing to host US President Donald Trump on a visit this year.
North Korea has reacted angrily to international sanctions that will cut $1 billion from its exports, describing the new United Nations Security Council bans as "a rampant violation of our sovereignty".
Xi Jinping said China's army had the capability to "defeat all invading enemies", and safeguard national sovereignty, security and "development interests".
Trump's angry tweet that China had increased its trade with North Korea by 40 per cent in the first three months of 2017 is misleading.
US and South Korean troops have fired missiles into the waters off South Korea, the US military said, in a show of force after North Korea's ICBM test.
China will agree to sanctions at the UN Security Council overnight, but is likely to stop short of the measures the US is demanding, predicts a Chinese analyst.
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