With top U.S. officials continuing to declare that help from China will be key in calming tensions between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (RoK), President Obama is planning to call Chinese President Hu Jintao in the next few days to discuss the critical situation, according to senior administration officials.
The phone call will come just days after Obama held a bilateral meeting with Hu on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Seoul, RoK, where administration officials were quick to tout the fact that it was the seventh face-to-face meeting the two leaders have had since Obama took office.
Obama is also to planning to host Hu for an official visit to Washington in early January, but the relationship will be tested much sooner with U.S. officials already putting not-so-subtle public pressure on China to step up now to cool tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
U.S. officials say China's help is key in getting the DPRK to ratchet down the crisis caused by Pyongyang's deadly strike on a RoK’s military installation.
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