SHANGHAI: A senior Chinese envoy has met an aide to North Korean chief Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang, the two aspects said Saturday, stressing long-standing ties regardless of deep divisions over the North's nuclear actions.
Song Tao is visiting on behalf of President Xi Jinping, ostensibly to temporary the North's officers on the recent Chinese Communist Party congress and other "issues of mutual interest".
The two communist neighbours, as soon as said by way of Mao Zedong to be "as close as lips and teeth", are at odds over the nuclear standoff and US President Donald Trump is urging Beijing to pile force on Pyongyang.
Song, the first senior Chinese envoy to consult with in additional than a year, were extensively expected to boost the deadlock over North Korea's missile and nuclear assessments in his Friday assembly with Choe Ryong-Hae, a best reliable in North Korea's ruling birthday celebration.
But a Chinese Communist Party record of the assembly made no mention of the ones issues, focusing as a substitute on platitudes concerning the lengthy relationship.
A birthday celebration statement said Song and Choe agreed that mutual ties have been "the common treasure of the two peoples".
"Both parties should make concerted efforts to promote the development of the relations between the two parties and the two countries and let them benefit the two peoples," the statement paraphrased them as pronouncing.
A brief record by way of North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency said Song advised his hosts that China sought after to "develop the traditional friendly relations between the two parties and countries", but gave no additional details.
Trump, who warned Xi during his shuttle to Beijing last week that time used to be "quickly running out" to unravel the nuclear disaster, took to Twitter on Thursday to hail Song's undertaking as "a big move, we'll see what happens!"
The United States needs China, which accounts for 90 percent of North Korea's international business, to apply extra financial force.
But experts doubt Song's consult with will yield breakthroughs, pronouncing Beijing has a long way less political influence on Kim than is assumed regardless of the industrial ties.
"Relations are extremely stressed. Perhaps the lowest point since the Korean War. Perhaps (the mission) will put a floor under China-North Korea relations, preventing further deterioration," said Bonnie Glaser, China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
China has imposed its own banking restrictions on North Koreans in addition to enacting a chain of UN measures that include bans on imports of coal, iron ore and seafood from the North.
But Beijing fears that squeezing Pyongyang too hard would purpose its cave in. Analysts say Song's shuttle is most likely aimed extra at urging Kim's regime not to escalate tensions fairly than applying real force for disarmament.
Song Tao is visiting on behalf of President Xi Jinping, ostensibly to temporary the North's officers on the recent Chinese Communist Party congress and other "issues of mutual interest".
The two communist neighbours, as soon as said by way of Mao Zedong to be "as close as lips and teeth", are at odds over the nuclear standoff and US President Donald Trump is urging Beijing to pile force on Pyongyang.
Song, the first senior Chinese envoy to consult with in additional than a year, were extensively expected to boost the deadlock over North Korea's missile and nuclear assessments in his Friday assembly with Choe Ryong-Hae, a best reliable in North Korea's ruling birthday celebration.
But a Chinese Communist Party record of the assembly made no mention of the ones issues, focusing as a substitute on platitudes concerning the lengthy relationship.
A birthday celebration statement said Song and Choe agreed that mutual ties have been "the common treasure of the two peoples".
"Both parties should make concerted efforts to promote the development of the relations between the two parties and the two countries and let them benefit the two peoples," the statement paraphrased them as pronouncing.
A brief record by way of North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency said Song advised his hosts that China sought after to "develop the traditional friendly relations between the two parties and countries", but gave no additional details.
Trump, who warned Xi during his shuttle to Beijing last week that time used to be "quickly running out" to unravel the nuclear disaster, took to Twitter on Thursday to hail Song's undertaking as "a big move, we'll see what happens!"
The United States needs China, which accounts for 90 percent of North Korea's international business, to apply extra financial force.
But experts doubt Song's consult with will yield breakthroughs, pronouncing Beijing has a long way less political influence on Kim than is assumed regardless of the industrial ties.
"Relations are extremely stressed. Perhaps the lowest point since the Korean War. Perhaps (the mission) will put a floor under China-North Korea relations, preventing further deterioration," said Bonnie Glaser, China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
China has imposed its own banking restrictions on North Koreans in addition to enacting a chain of UN measures that include bans on imports of coal, iron ore and seafood from the North.
But Beijing fears that squeezing Pyongyang too hard would purpose its cave in. Analysts say Song's shuttle is most likely aimed extra at urging Kim's regime not to escalate tensions fairly than applying real force for disarmament.
Chinese, North Korean envoys talk up ties despite nuclear tensions
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