Chinese President Xi Jinping has written to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, offering to cooperate to "accelerate peace" in the world, the North Korean state agency KCNA announced on Saturday.
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"The world, times and history are changing in unprecedented ways," Xi said in response to a letter from Kim Jong-un, who congratulated him on his historic reappointment. head of the Chinese Communist Party and the country in October.
“Faced with this new situation, I am ready, together with you, to contribute positively (…) to accelerating peace, stability, development and prosperity in the region and the rest of the world”, he continued.
The letter comes as tensions are at their height on the Korean peninsula, after a record series of missile tests by Pyongyang and as Seoul, Washington and Tokyo have stepped up military cooperation.
Pyongyang notably launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on November 18 which fell off Japan, and Kim Jong-un threatened the United States with nuclear response if his country was attacked.
During an interview last week on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, US President Joe Biden asked Xi Jinping to "clearly" tell North Korea not to conduct a new nuclear test, like Seoul and Washington. lend him the intention.
“It is certain that our diplomacy will endeavor to bring China to join the countries which condemn this publicly today and to use its influence to persuade” North Korea, had then declared a senior American official.
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