Xi calls for restraint as US naval flotilla heads for Korean waters
Japan conducts exercises with the US aircraft carrier strike group as pressure on Pyongyang builds
Beijing — Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all sides to exercise restraint on Monday in a telephone call about North Korea with US President Donald Trump, as Japan conducted exercises with a US aircraft carrier strike group headed for Korean waters. Trump sent the carrier group for exercises in waters off the Korean peninsula as a warning, amid growing fears North Korea could conduct another nuclear test in defiance of UN sanctions. Angered by the approach of the USS Carl Vinson carrier group, a defiant North Korea said on Monday the deployment was "an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade". "The US should not run amok and should consider carefully any catastrophic consequence from its foolish military provocative act," Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said in a commentary on Monday. "What’s only laid for aggressors is dead bodies," the newspaper said. Two Japanese destroyers have joined the carrier group ...
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