Despite the common goal of reducing tensions, differences remain over possible solutions to the crisis, according to analysts.
The telephone conversation comes at a time when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hosting her counterparts from Japan and the ROK for talks on the peninsula on Monday.
All three nations have responded coolly to an earlier Chinese proposal to hold an emergency meeting of heads of delegations to the Six-Party Talks to discuss the crisis, but they will discuss the proposal in the trilateral meeting.
The tripartite meeting, excluding China and Russia, means that the US does not seek an immediate cooling of the Korean Peninsula crisis, said Chen Qi, an expert on East Asian studies at Tsinghua University.
According to Sun Zhe, director of the Center for US-China Relations at Tsinghua University, the phone call could be an attempt to avoid the perception that the Washington meeting binds the US, Japan and the ROK on one side against China, Russia and the DPRK on the other.
Fan Jishe, a professor of American studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that its time for Washington to change its mindset on the Korean Peninsula issue.
The US has made a mistake in constantly pressing the DPRK to give up its nuclear program before resuming talks, which only feeds tensions. Pyongyang will never compromise unless it feels secure, said Fan.
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