President Obama cautioned Chinese President, Hu Jintao, about acting to keep North Korea under control or else U.S. forces in Asia might have to be redeployed. Obama claims that Washington has been persuaded due to various factors that Pyongyang had become a danger to the United States along with Pyongyang’s allies in Asia. North Korea was the main topic of concern between Obama and Hu during the oval office talks that occurred on Wednesday. The warning was apparently given over a phone call the past month and brought up again at a dinner on Tuesday. These discussions between the two Presidents resulted in North Korea offering to engage in military dialogue with South Korea to alleviate some of the current friction. The interaction between the two Koreas would be the first time the two communicated since last November when North Korea launched an artillery attack on the South Korean Island. Obama mentioned to Hu that the U.S. might have to make some changes such as intensifying its military exercises in Northeast Asia due to the aggressive behavior of the North. We talked a little in class how one state that feels threatened will in a sense “show off” to whom they feel threatened in an attempt to pressure that state to back away from engaging in conflict.
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