CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPOKESMAN GIVES PRESSER
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Qin Gang holds a press conference addressing the North Korean nuclear crisis in Beijing on March 15, 2007. China said today it opposed U.S. sanctions on a Macau-based bank accused of money laundering for North Korea. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)
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The regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "will perish from the Earth" if it attacks South Korea with nuclear weapons, Seoul's defense minister said Friday.
China, in a frank statement, said the U.N. Security Council's new sanctions against North Korea were a "necessary and moderate response" to its nuclear test.
North Korea, ignoring U.N. resolutions, has readied all three stages of its long-range rocket for launch this month, a South Korean source told Yonhap News.
North Korea's rocket launch announced for this month is designed only to gain international attention, a Chinese expert told the China Daily.
Japan Monday prepared to deploy missile interceptors ahead of North Korea's long-range rocket launch seen by Washington as a violation of U.N. resolutions.
The escalating territorial dispute between Japan and China over a group of uninhabited East China Sea islands showed no sign of easing Monday.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said comments by the United States about tensions over oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea "sent the wrong signal."
China says a U.S. decision to deny its Bank of Kunlun access to the U.S. financial system violates international norms.
The Chinese government said Thursday is disapproves of the recent meeting between the Dalai Lama and Italian Chamber of Deputies speaker Gianfranco Fini.
China says nations funding what it called "East Turkistan terrorists" were only supporting the "three forces" of separatism, terrorism and extremism.
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