Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean Counterpart Park Geun-hye on Thursday once again urged the Pyongyang government to resume nuclear talks in a bid to ease tensions over the Korean Peninsula.
After a summit in Beijing, the two leaders said in a joint statement that both of them agreed on the importance of implementing the U.N. sanctions against North Koreas and urged Pyongyang to resume negotiations on its nuclear disarmament.
"We shared an understanding that North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons cannot be tolerated under any circumstances," said the South Korean president at a joint press conference with Xi Jinping, according to the Washington Post.
The South Korean president said that she would focus on boosting cooperation with China "so as to make North Korea come forward for sincere talks."
Beijing is North Korea's best ally but in recent months leaders in Beijing have shown growing concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests.
Following a series of nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang early this year, Washington imposed several sanctions against the North Korean government.
Blaming Washington for escalating tensions over the Korean Peninsula, North Korea's U.N. ambassador Sin Son Ho last week warned that a new war could take place "at any moment".
"The U.N. Command, fundamentally speaking, was a tool of war which was organized by the United States for the purpose of deploying its satellite forces and exercising its control over them during the last Korean War," said Sin Son Ho.
"In other words, every issue could be possible to be settled once and for all if the United States has a true and genuine willingness to cooperate with the DPRK without any hostility for establishing peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the region," said the U.N. ambassador.
