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China, Russia call for peaceful solution
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THE Chinese and Russian foreign ministers called for a peaceful end to the “vicious cycle” on the Korean Peninsula as they met in New York for the UN General Assembly.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov urged all parties to seek a “peaceful resolution” to the current stand-off with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
Threatening action or rhetoric cannot help resolve the situation, the ministry said, after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted about the existence of military options.
Asked if there were any military options the United States could take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk, Mattis had said there were, but declined to give details.
Seoul is within artillery range of North Korea, which is also believed to have a sizable chemical and biological arsenal beyond nuclear and conventional weapons.
“The Korean Peninsula nuclear problem must be solved through peaceful means,” the ministry quoted Wang as saying yesterday, adding that “the current deepening vicious cycle must be broken.”
“Restoring peace talks is also a necessary step to carrying out the UN Security Council’s resolution,” he said.
Lavrov said Russia’s position on the issue is “completely identical” to China’s.
Russia has joined China’s call for a “dual-track” approach in which North Korea suspends its weapons program in return for the US and South Korea halting military drills in the region.
North Korea has repeatedly defied the UN to conduct nuclear and missile tests.
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