U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked on the phone on Friday night, as tensions rise on Korean peninsula.
In their phone call, Trump and Xi “agreed North Korea must stop its provocative and escalatory behavior,” the White House said in a statement, and reiterated their mutual commitment to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. It added the relationship between Trump and Xi was “extremely close” and “will hopefully lead to a peaceful resolution of the North Korea problem.”
In a statement, China’s foreign ministry said Xi told Trump that, “Dialogue, negotiations and a political settlement are the fundamental ways of solving the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear issue.”
Xi also stressed that China and the U.S. share the same interests on the denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula, as the statement said.
