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China, SKorea, Japan try to ease NKorea tensions, lay groundwork for regional free trade area

• BEIJING (AP) -- The leaders of China, South Korea and Japan said Sunday that they will work together to try to calm tensions on the Korean peninsula. The three largest East Asian economies also took steps toward deepening their economic ties by

laying the groundwork for a regional free trade area.
• The nations -- which together account for 90 percent of the East Asian economy -- were holding their fifth annual trilateral summit, with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hosting, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attending.
• Lee said the three countries all agreed that any further provocations from North Korea would be unacceptable.
• A failed rocket launch by North Korea last month drew sanctions from the U.N. Security Council, and there are now fears Pyongyang is preparing to conduct its third nuclear test.
• Wen urged all parties to "return to the right track of dialogue and negotiations."
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