It is time for North Korea to get "serious" about negotiations for peace, the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.
Mr Gates was speaking in Japan, after a four-day visit to China.
He said the risk of provocation leading to war between the two Koreas was very high and noted the South had the right to respond if attacked.
Mr Gates's trip has focused on repairing military ties with China and easing tensions between the Koreas.
His meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was also an opportunity to reaffirm the US-Japan alliance, amid recent tensions over the stalled relocation of a US base in Okinawa. - BBC
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