North Korea seen 'cautious' in announcing stance over upcoming summits: Seoul
"President Moon Jae-in believes that the leadership of the Chinese government, especially the leadership ability of President Xi has played a big role in this", Chung told Xi at the Great Hall of the People.
Just days after he stood outside the White House and announced the planned meet between the U.S. president and the North Korean leader, Chung Eui-yong was in Beijing to brief Xi and China's top diplomats on the fast-moving efforts to address the nuclear standoff.
"We are very grateful to China for its consistent position", he said.
"The dramatic developments unfolding on the Korean Peninsula seem to conform with efforts to bring the denuclearization drive for the Korean Peninsula back on track and also with the direction of the UN Security Council resolutions", he added.
By way of geography, its growing influence and established interest on the Korean Peninsula, China "was bound to play an important role in promoting denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in particular and shaping the geopolitical order in Northeast Asia in general", Cheng wrote.
Chung announced last week that Trump had said that he would meet Kim by May "to achieve permanent denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula.
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Chung said Kim told the South Koreans during recent talks in Pyongyang that he's "committed to denuclearization" and pledged that "North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests".
The South Korean officials who carried Kim's invitation to Washington are visiting China and Japan this week to update state heads on the talks.
Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono declined to say what concrete action would be taken.
However, there has been no word from the secretive state on the potential for a meeting with the US, South Korea's Ministry of Unification said on Monday.
China has long urged the United States and North Korea to start bilateral talks about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
The dramatic turn of events follows a flaring of tensions up until late past year as the North continued its nuclear and missile tests despite strong condemnation from the worldwide community. Trump has repeatedly urged China to do more to pressure North Korea into abandoning its nuclear program. -South Korean war games.
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