Russia, China to build up coop bonds in Korean Peninsula

 Beijing: Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov agreed in Friday phone talks to strengthen cooperation on the issues concerning the Korean Peninsula, the Chinese side said.
“They agreed that China and Russia should keep communication and strengthen coordination bilaterally and in multilateral fora, and jointly play a constructive role for promoting the political settlement of the Peninsula issue,” a statement, published by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said.
The counterparts agreed that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula is a shared interest of regional countries as well as the whole international community.
The legitimate and reasonable concerns of the North Korea should be “taken seriously and addressed accordingly,” the statement read.
Both diplomats underscored that parties should exercise restraint and aim at resolving each other’s concerns by taking concrete steps to create necessary conditions to resume talks.
North Korea intensified launches of ballistic missiles and other projectiles in 2022. Since the beginning of the year, Pyongyang launched 18 missiles, some of which it said were hypersonic. At the end of June, South Korean minister of unification Kwon Young-se said that North Korea had completed all preparations for a nuclear test but was waiting for the right moment to maximize its effect. (UNI/SPUTNIK)