China and South Korea Meet to Bring North Korea Back into Nuclear Discussion

Chinese and South Korean leaders have called upon North Korea to restart talks to reduce their cache of nuclear weaponry, during a meeting where the two nations discussed tactics they could use to bring their anomalous neighbor back into the conversation.

The Beijing conference kicked off South Korean President Park Geun-hye's four-day visit to China. The meetings also came amid Chinese displeasure with Pyongyang over a missile launch and nuclear test the North carried out despite Beijing's protests, The Washington Post reported.

"We shared an understanding that North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons cannot be tolerated under any circumstances," Park said during a press conference with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

Xi claimed that his and Park's agreement to work more diligently together on North Korean-related matters still stood, but emphasized that Pyongyang must resume six-nation talks on scaling back their nuclear weapons.

Park made it clear that North Korea was of the utmost important to her. She told the South Korean press that she intended on bolstering relations with China "so as to make North Korea come forward for sincere talks."

Park came to Beijing with an entourage of some of the biggest companies worldwide, including Samsung, LG and Hyundai Motors.

Some analysts said that China might have used meetings with Park to show its discontentment with North Korea while simultaneously applying pressure on Pyongyang to get talking.

Following North Korea's nuclear test in April, China snapped back by raising sanctions on its ally and taking away access from some North Korean Banks.

"In the past, Chinese residents had some sympathy towards North Korea, more or less, but right now, Chinese are very disappointed and feel North Korea is almost laughable," Jin Canrong, an international relations professor at Renmin University in Beijing told the Washington Post.

Park will continue her trip for the next four days-next up on her schedule is Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang's speech at Beijing's Tsinghua University.