The United States is capable of responding to an attack from North Korea, but Washington and its allies must work hard to “preserve the peace,” the American commander overseeing operations on the Korean Peninsula said Tuesday as U.S. senators urged him to engage China more forcefully in that effort.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear faced pointed questions about China’s patronage of Pyongyang, a line of inquiry that made it clear that several lawmakers think Beijing has not used its leverage over North Korea to end a series of threats and provocative actions.
“I would think that China could play a key role in influencing the bellicose rhetoric and restoring some sense of calm to the peninsula,” Locklear said. “I believe sometimes the Chinese, in the way they approach it, are more nuanced than we are.”
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Ernesto Nondoño and Karen DeYoung, Washington Post via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/OIc9gAcBosM/
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