China: US, N. Korea should establish contact, defuse crisis
China urged the United States and North Korea on Tuesday to make contact « as soon as possible » and ease tensions amid rising belligerence from the two sides over the North’s nuclear weapons program.
The call for negotiations from China’s Foreign Ministry came after President Donald Trump opened the door to a possible future meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Trump told Bloomberg News during an interview that he would be honored to meet with Kim at an unspecified future date « if it would be appropriate. »
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Washington and Pyongyang need to take concrete steps toward peace and avoid further escalating a crisis that has quickly spiraled into a top global security concern.
