Trump says high-level exchanges between US and China to yield major results The Chinese government said that US President Donald Trump told Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi during his visit to the US on June 22 that he hoped to move forward quickly with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
An understanding to this effect came during a meeting between US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and top Chinese diplomats and defense chiefs in Washington.
"Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula", a consensus document released by the official Xinhua news agency said.
Yang made the remark during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
The consensus document also highlighted the need to fully and strictly hold to U.N. Security Council resolutions and push for dialogue and negotiation, which has always been China's position on the issue. It also adds that military exchanges and information mechanisms need to be empowered to avoid the risk of "guilty estimates" between the United States and Chinese military.
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Xi and Trump are next expected to meet again in Hamburg during the G20 Summit next month.
The death of American student Otto Warmbier, who passed away last week after being released from 17 months of detention in Pyongyang for stealing a propaganda poster, further complicated the American president's attitude towards that communist state.
China, North Korea's main ally and trading partner, previously bought the commodity under exemptions that allowed trade for "livelihood" purposes. Washington, therefore, considers "secondary sanctions" against Chinese banks and companies that continue to cooperate with North Korea.
China said it would ban coal imports from the North from February 18th until the end of this year in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution adopted following North Korea's fifth nuclear test last September.
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