Russia And China Begin Naval Exercises Near North Korea

ABC News Online: China and Russia begin naval drills near North Korea amid continuing nuclear tensions

China and Russia have begun naval drills near North Korea amid continuing nuclear tensions, while Germany has urged for direct talks with the isolated state to resolve the standoff.

North Korea launched a missile over Japan last Friday, its second in the past three weeks, and conducted its sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test on September 3 in defiance of international pressure.

China's official news agency, Xinhua, said the joint naval exercises would take place between Peter the Great Bay, not far from the Russia-North Korea border, and into the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, to the north of Japan.

The drills are the second part of China-Russian exercises this year — the first part of which took place in the Baltic in July.

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