Beijing — China and Russia began naval drills near North Korea on Monday amid continuing tension over the isolated state’s nuclear ambitions, and ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting this week, where North Korea is likely to loom large. North Korea launched a missile over Japan on Friday, its second in the past three weeks, and conducted its sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test on September 3, in defiance of international pressure. The official Xinhua news agency said the joint exercises will take place between Peter the Great Bay, just outside the Russian far eastern port of Vladivostok, not far from the Russia-North Korea border, and into the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, to the north of Japan. The drills are the second part of China-Russian naval exercises this year, the first part of which took place in the Baltic in July. The report did not directly link the drills to current tension over North Korea. Both China and Russia have repeatedly called for ...
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