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美国与韩国准备于黄海举行联合军事演习、对朝鲜袭击韩国一处岛屿做出回应之际，中国总理温家宝说，中国反对针对朝鲜半岛的“任何军事挑衅行为”。朝鲜是中国的亲密盟友。据中国外交部网站周四发布的一则声明，温家宝在访问俄罗斯期间发言时，把当前首尔与平壤之间的僵局称为一种“严峻复杂形势”，呼吁“有关各方应保持最大限度克制”，“国际社会也应多做有利于缓和紧张局势的工作”。
温家宝是周三在莫斯科会见俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫(Dmitry Medvedev)时发表这些言论的。这些话同中国外交部同一天发布的一则声明基本一致，但没有重复外交部对人员丧生表示“痛心和遗憾”的表述。朝鲜对朝韩争议海上分界线附近韩国小岛延坪发射多枚炮弹，两名平民和两名韩国海军士兵死亡。
中国是朝鲜唯一的大国盟友和主要援助国，美国总统奥巴马(Barack Obama)和其他国家领导人已呼吁中国对其邻国加以约束。然而，中国外交部的声明虽然含蓄地承认朝鲜炮击造成的损失，但中国还没有把此事的责任方归于平壤方面。炮击事件引发了朝鲜战争1953年结束以来朝鲜半岛最严重的危机之一。
中国官方媒体的报道重点突出了朝鲜方面的说法。朝鲜方面说，是韩国在这片地区的军事演习刺激它实施了打击。
从温家宝的表态中，看不出他反对的军事挑衅行为指的是朝鲜的炮击，还是平壤方面所称韩国刺激它做出反应的军事演习，亦或是美国与韩国之间计划进行的海上军事演习。
美国和韩国周三宣布，航空母舰乔治•华盛顿号(USS George Washington)将于周日在黄海同韩国海军一起举行军事演习。黄海位于朝鲜半岛和中国东部之间。五角大楼一位发言人说，这些演习是为了对朝鲜的历次攻击实施威慑，但他也说，演习是事先计划好的，和朝鲜炮击延坪岛没有直接关系。
中方还没有对演习计划的宣布做出明确回应，不过在今年夏季美韩计划举行前一轮海上演习的时候，它曾愤怒地加以反对。美国官员当时指出，美国海军在黄海已经演习过多年。
Jason Dean
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China's premier said it opposes 'any provocative military behavior' on the Korean Peninsula, as the U.S. and South Korean prepare for joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea in response to North Korea's deadly attack on a South Korean island.
Speaking on a visit to Russia, Premier Wen Jiabao called the standoff between Seoul and Pyongyang, China's close ally, a 'severely complicated situation,' according to a statement posted Thursday on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website. Mr. Wen called for 'all relevant parties to exercise the utmost restraint,' and said 'the international community should do more work to ease the tension of the situation.'
Mr. Wen's comments, made Wednesday in a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, largely echoed a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement issued the same day, but did not repeat the ministry's expression of 'pain and regret' over the loss of life. Two civilians and two South Korea marines were killed after North Korea began raining artillery shells on the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong near the disputed maritime border between North and South.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other foreign leaders have called on China, North Korea's only major ally and benefactor, to restrain its neighbor. But while the Foreign Ministry's statement implicitly acknowledged the damage caused by the North's attack, China has yet to blame Pyongyang for the episode, which has triggered one of the worst crises on the Korean Peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Chinese state media reports on the situation have given prominent play to North Korea's assertion that it was provoked into attacking by South Korean military exercises in the area.
Mr. Wen's statement left unclear whether his warning against provocative military behavior referred to North Korea's attack, or to the South Korean exercises Pyongyang claims to have responded to, or to the planned naval drills between the U.S. and South Korea.
The U.S. and South Korea announced on Wednesday that the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier, would conduct exercises with the South Korean navy on Sunday in the Yellow Sea, which sits between the Korean Peninsula and eastern China. A Pentagon spokesman said the exercise was meant to be a deterrent to North Korean attacks, but he also said it was previously planned, and not directly related to the North Korean attack.
China hasn't yet explicitly responded to the announcement of the planned drills, although it angrily objected to plans for a previous round of U.S.-South Korea naval drills in the Yellow Sea over the summer. U.S. officials at the time pointed out that the U.S. Navy has conducted drills in the Yellow Sea for years.
Jason Dean
Speaking on a visit to Russia, Premier Wen Jiabao called the standoff between Seoul and Pyongyang, China's close ally, a 'severely complicated situation,' according to a statement posted Thursday on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website. Mr. Wen called for 'all relevant parties to exercise the utmost restraint,' and said 'the international community should do more work to ease the tension of the situation.'
Mr. Wen's comments, made Wednesday in a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, largely echoed a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement issued the same day, but did not repeat the ministry's expression of 'pain and regret' over the loss of life. Two civilians and two South Korea marines were killed after North Korea began raining artillery shells on the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong near the disputed maritime border between North and South.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other foreign leaders have called on China, North Korea's only major ally and benefactor, to restrain its neighbor. But while the Foreign Ministry's statement implicitly acknowledged the damage caused by the North's attack, China has yet to blame Pyongyang for the episode, which has triggered one of the worst crises on the Korean Peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Chinese state media reports on the situation have given prominent play to North Korea's assertion that it was provoked into attacking by South Korean military exercises in the area.
Mr. Wen's statement left unclear whether his warning against provocative military behavior referred to North Korea's attack, or to the South Korean exercises Pyongyang claims to have responded to, or to the planned naval drills between the U.S. and South Korea.
The U.S. and South Korea announced on Wednesday that the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier, would conduct exercises with the South Korean navy on Sunday in the Yellow Sea, which sits between the Korean Peninsula and eastern China. A Pentagon spokesman said the exercise was meant to be a deterrent to North Korean attacks, but he also said it was previously planned, and not directly related to the North Korean attack.
China hasn't yet explicitly responded to the announcement of the planned drills, although it angrily objected to plans for a previous round of U.S.-South Korea naval drills in the Yellow Sea over the summer. U.S. officials at the time pointed out that the U.S. Navy has conducted drills in the Yellow Sea for years.
Jason Dean
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