- Title: Senior Chinese diplomat to visit North Korea next week
- Date: 30th August 2019
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (AUGUST 30, 2019) (REUTERS) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN GENG SHUANG ARRIVING AT NEWS CONFERENCE JOURNALISTS SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN GENG SHUANG, SAYING: "State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit this time is to implement the consensus reached between our two countries, China and North Korea, and an important follow-up step in advancing our bilateral relationship. During the visit, State Councillor Wang Yi will hold talks with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho. China will announce details with regard to this visit in a timely manner." JOURNALISTS SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN GENG SHUANG, SAYING: "China hopes that all sides can increase and strengthen their contact and communication and meet each other halfway, follow the path of dual track regulation in a synchronized manner, positively search for complete denuclearisation and effective ways to construct a peaceful mechanism and settle each other’s reasonable concerns properly." JOURNALIST SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN GENG SHUANG, CONTINUED FROM SHOT NO. 5, SAYING: "China is also willing to play a constructive role in achieving this, and play a constructive role towards achieving denuclearisation of the peninsula and the long standing peace and stability of northeast Asia." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS EXTERIOR OF CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING CHINESE NATIONAL FLAG FLYING
- Embargoed: 13th September 2019 09:45
- Keywords: nuclear Trump DMZ China-North Korea North Korea Korean Peninsula Wang Yi Kim denuclearisation
- Location: BEIJING, CHINA
- City: BEIJING, CHINA
- Country: China
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AUERK1Z
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- Story Text: The Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, will visit North Korea next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday (August 30), at a time of international concern about a series of missile launches and tests by Pyongyang.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of a "super-large multiple rocket launcher" on Saturday (August 24), the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks amid stalled denuclearisation talks.
China has encouraged the talks process, especially between North Korea and the United States, and President Xi Jinping visited Pyongyang in June.
Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Wang's visit, from Monday (September 2) to Wednesday (September 4) next week, would be "an important follow up step to advance our bilateral relationship."
Wang will hold talks with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, among other activities, Geng added, without giving details.
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