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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/un-in-meeting-over-korean-tensions.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong island amid growing tensions. (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-un-in-meeting-over-korean-tensions.jpg" alt="South Korean marines patrol on Yeonpyeong island amid growing tensions. (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The UN Security Council is meeting in an emergency session amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean warning of a &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; if South Korea goes ahead with a live-fire drill.</p>
<p>Russia called for the meeting, and Moscow wants the UN&#8217;s most powerful body to adopt a statement calling on North Korea and South Korea &#8220;to exercise maximum restraint&#8221;.</p>
<p>The North has warned of &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; if the South goes ahead with plans to conduct one-day, live-fire drills by Tuesday on the same front-line island the North shelled last month as the South conducted a similar exercise.</p>
<p>A draft presidential statement circulated by Russia to council members also stresses the need for efforts &#8220;to ensure a de-escalation of tension&#8221; between the two Koreas and a &#8220;resumption of dialogue and resolution of all problems dividing them exclusively through peaceful diplomatic means&#8221;.</p>
<p>It asks Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon immediately to send an envoy to both countries &#8220;to consult on urgent measures to settle peacefully the current crisis situation in the Korean Peninsula&#8221;.</p>
<p>The council began meeting behind closed doors and heard a briefing from UN political chief B. Lynn Pascoe on the situation in the Koreas.</p>
<p>Pascoe echoed Ban&#8217;s remarks on Friday when the secretary-general called the November 23 North Korean attack on the tiny island of Yeonpyeong &#8220;one of the gravest provocations since the end of (the) Korean War&#8221; in 1953, according to a council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the consultations are closed.</p>
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