Moon Jae In, who easily won South Korea's presidential election Tuesday, was the beneficiary of another popular backlash against a ruling establishment perceived as corrupt and out of touch.
"The resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue must be comprehensive and sequential, with pressure and sanctions used in parallel with negotiations", Moon's spokesman, Yoon Young-chan, quoted Moon as telling Xi.
South Korea's new president launched global efforts to defuse tension over North Korea's weapons development on Thursday, urging both dialogue and sanctions while also aiming to ease China's anger about a USA anti-missile system.
The phone calls came a day after Moon and US President Donald Trump agreed on "close cooperation" over the North's nuclear ambitions in their first conversation on Wednesday night.
Despite Mr Moon's firm stance on the sexual slavery issue, he said historical issues must not hinder the countries' bilateral relations and joint efforts to denuclearise North Korea.
North Korea last week accused the Central Intelligence Agency of plotting with the South to assassinate Kim using a biochemical weapon, an allegation impossible to verify - and following the killing of his half-brother Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia with a banned nerve agent, a murder widely blamed on Pyongyang.
Organizers of the attempts to assassinate the leadership of North Korea will be 'mercilessly destroyed, ' North Korean Ambassador said. With Seoul now sharing the latter view, Beijing will feel even less pressure to seriously tighten the screws on North Korea, as Trump has been urging.
Sonic Mania Footage Shows Knuckles In Flying Battery Zone
Sonic Mania will be available digitally for Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC and Nintendo Switch this summer. Of this year's two Sonic games, it's Sonic Mania that has us most excited.
Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea but also China and other parts of Asia, were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II.
While South Korea, China and Japan all share worry about North Korea, ties between South Korea and China have been strained by South Korea's decision to install a USA anti-missile system in defence against the North.
Moon told Xi that he would soon send a delegation to discuss the placement of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea.
The terror group was acting on the instruction of intelligence agencies of the US and South Korea, according to Kim Hyun Joong.
China says the system does little to curb the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes, which Pyongyang has been pressing ahead with in defiance of US pressure and United Nations sanctions.
The US is the South's security guarantor and has 28,500 troops stationed in the country, but Seoul was startled when Trump suggested it should pay for the $1 billion THAAD system. Mr Moon acknowledged Chinese concerns about the system but said that Beijing should address the "restraints and restrictions" punitively imposed on South Korean companies operating in China.
China has denied it is retaliating against South Korean businesses.
Comments