China's foreign minister called North Korea's ambassador in for a dressing-down Tuesday and demanded his country's cease making further threats, in a show of Beijing's displeasure over its erstwhile ally's latest nuclear test.
The United States and North Korea on Thursday resumed talks that were delayed by the death of North Korea's Kim Jong-il two months ago, with the U.S. envoy saying they covered U.S. food aid and other topics.
The death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il touched off an instant media frenzy inside China, a state that proudly proclaimed North Korea to be its closest ideological and geopolitical ally.
