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United States has rejected China’s proposal aimed at reducing tension in the Korean peninsula. State Department’s acting spokesman Mark Toner said, the defence cooperation between the US and South Korea can not be compared to the blatant disregard the North has shown to international laws.
He said all previous attempts to pursuade North Korea to halt its nuclear programme have failed and there is a need to find new ways to engage. He said the US is open to dialogue with North Korea, but the onus is on North Korea to take meaningful actions toward secularisation and refrain from provocations.
China had yesterday proposed a formula to avoid a head-on collision between the US and North Korea, suggesting that North Korea suspend its nuclear programme and the US and the South stop their military exercises in the tensed peninsula.