"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Tokyo for talks with Japanese officials on the North Korean crisis. In Beijing on April 13, Kerry and senior Chinese officials agreed that diplomacy was the best way to "denuclearize" the Korean Peninsula. Chinese officials did not say, however, whether Beijing will pressure ally Pyongyang, something Kerry is eager to see China do. China's Xinhua news agency said in a commentary that Washington had itself been "fanning the flames" on the Korean Peninsula, a probable reference to recent U.S. military drills in South Korea. North Korea has vowed nuclear war against the United States among other threats in recent weeks. Tensions on the peninsula began to rise after the North's third nuclear test in February. In response, the UN imposed sanctions on Pyongyang."


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