Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with guests after delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing 28 April, 2016. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/KYODO NEWS/POOL
Reuters: China won't allow chaos or war on Korean peninsula: Xi
China will not allow chaos and war to break out on the Korean peninsula, which would be to no one's advantage, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a group of Asian foreign ministers on Thursday.
North Korea's drive to develop a nuclear weapons capability, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, has angered China and raised tension in the region.
"As a close neighbor of the peninsula, we will absolutely not permit war or chaos on the peninsula. This situation would not benefit anyone," Xi said in a speech to a Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
On Thursday, South Korea's defense ministry said North Korea had fired what appeared to have been an intermediate range ballistic missile that crashed within seconds of the test launch.
It was the second such failure in the run-up to next week's
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WNU Editor: President Xi must now back these words with actions, starting with imposing the agreed-to-sanctions on North Korea..
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Chairman Xi knows what he's doing. He's not playin', with anyone. Kim will back down and he won't be alone.
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