Gillard wants the two Koreas to talk Prime Minister Julia Gillard will urge China to pressure North Korea to stop making provocative statements and accept South Korea's offer of trust-building talks. Australia has clearly stated its condemnation of North Korea's "belligerent and provocative statements," Ms Gillard told reporters as she arrived in China on Friday for a six-day visit. "I will be urging the Chinese leadership to use its influence to help with this issue, and help see an end to these provocative statements," Ms Gillard said. North Korea should take a "different stance," she said amid mounting tensions in the region over its warlike rhetoric and threats of nuclear strike. This is a regime that cannot feed and properly care for its people, that engages in some of the worst human rights abuses that we've seen around the world. It is not in the interests of North Korea's people for this kind of belligerence to be demonstrated by the leadership of North Korea. Ms Gillard says she has spoken to South Korea's President Park Geun-hye to express solidarity and Australia's concerns over the serious risk to regional security posed by North Korea's threats. She said she thought both South Korea and the US had shown a great deal of restraint. But of course, among the many risks ... there is always the risk of miscalculation when tension is inflamed. Which is why it is very important to do all we can everything can to get North Korea to step back. The prime minister wants North Korea to engage again in six party talks and accept an offer of president of South Korea for "trust-building dialogue." Earlier in Canberra, US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich said there would be no changes to the American military presence in Australia following the North Korean threats. "We're not aware of any capability by North Korea, even with weapons they've identified ... being able to conduct a strike in Australia," he told AAP. "It's incumbent on (China) to express the concerns of all of us about the belligerence of North Korea," he said.