CHINA calls for settling the Korean Peninsula issue through dialog and consultation.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the remarks in a press briefing in response to a query on the current situation on the Korean Peninsula.
“We are closely following the evolution and changes of the situation on the Korean Peninsula. In the recent time, the confrontation between relevant parties has intensified and the situation on the Peninsula has remained tense. As a neighbor of the Peninsula, China always upholds for maintaining peace and stability on the Peninsula and settling the Peninsula issue through dialog and consultation. Under the current circumstances, we hope relevant parties to remain calm and exercise restraint, refrain from taking actions that intensifies the situation, avoid further escalation of the tensions and create conditions for the resumption of meaningful dialog,” according to Wang Wenbin, Spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People’s Republic of China.
On Friday, South Korea’s military strongly criticized its northern neighbor as Pyongyang launched artillery rounds within a maritime buffer zone, a historically contentious area between the two nations.
According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea fired over 200 rounds between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. off its west coast, near South Korea’s Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands.
The artillery landed north of the Northern Limit Line, a disputed de facto border established by the United Nations at the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.
According to a South Korean media, North Korea has issued a caution regarding the most elevated risk of confrontations this year with its southern neighbor that could potentially lead in a nuclear strike.
