BEIJING — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged South Korea not to take sides between Beijing and Washington, saying the U.S. should abandon its “hostile” policy toward North Korea to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
\n\nWang made the remarks in a meeting with South Korean National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac in Seoul on Thursday, Chinese state media reported, where he also met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
\n\n“The fundamental solution to the tensions on the Korean Peninsula lies in addressing the root causes of the problem and urging the United States to abandon its hostile policy toward North Korea,” Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, cited Wang as saying.
\n\nTrump says he will meet with Kim Jong Un this year
\n\nChina hopes South Korea will “achieve genuine strategic autonomy, refrain from bloc confrontation and taking sides, and develop relations with major powers including China and the United States in parallel and without contradiction,” Wang said.
\n\nThe remarks came after President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, adding that the Asian nation held 57 “very powerful” nuclear weapons.
\n\nTrump had also ordered Pentagon officials to cut short…
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