N Korea lines up missiles as US-South drill begins—

China on Sunday pressed the emergency button for talks to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula, as North Korea moved its surface-to-surface missiles on launchpads in the Yellow Sea and the United States and South Korea began a massive naval drill on its troubled waters.

China urged six-party talks (including the US, Japan and Russia) at the earliest possible in December but Seoul and Tokyo only said they would "study" the proposal. At an unscheduled meeting earlier in the day, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak told a visiting Chinese delegation that Beijing must "do more" to help.