After top U.S. and Chinese diplomats concluded “difficult” talks in Alaska, Chinese official media revealed on Monday that Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanged messages, highlighting the Communist Party’s continued attempts to play an important role in security issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
According to the official CCTV News, Song Tao, minister of the CPC Central Committee’s Foreign Liaison Department, was assigned by Xi Jinping to meet with North Korean Ambassador Ri Yong Nam in Beijing on Monday. Xi stressed that the current century-old changes and the century-old Epidemic are overlapping, and the international and regional situation is evolving profoundly. “China is willing to work with the DPRK and relevant parties to adhere to the direction of a political solution to the peninsula issue, maintain peace and stability on the peninsula, and make new positive contributions to regional peace and stability, development and prosperity.”
For his part, Ri Yong Nam conveyed a message from Kim Jong Un that the DPRK is confident that the friendly relations between the DPRK and China will be sublimely developed in accordance with the requirements of the times and the aspirations, wishes and fundamental interests of the two peoples.
Reuters noted that the “difficult and direct” U.S.-China talks in Alaska last week directly demonstrated the deep tensions between the world’s two economic powers, while U.S. Secretary of State John Blinken said in Seoul last week that means and diplomatic options for pressuring North Korea are under consideration.
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