Xi tells Kim China wants to work with North Korea for peace: KCNA - Al Jazeera English

Xi sends connection to Kim amid an unprecedented fig of rocket tests by North Korea.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told North Korea’s Kim Jong Un that Beijing is consenting to enactment with Pyongyang for planetary bid and stability, according to the authoritative Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The study connected Saturday came days aft North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) successful 1 of its astir almighty tests yet, declaring it would conscionable perceived atomic threats from the United States with atomic weapons of its own.

North Korea has conducted a record-breaking blitz of rocket launches successful caller weeks and fears person grown that it is gathering up to a seventh atomic test, its archetypal since 2017.

In his connection to Kim, Xi said Beijing was acceptable to enactment unneurotic for “peace, stability, improvement and prosperity of the portion and the world”, KCNA reported.

Xi said helium was consenting to collaborate with Pyongyang arsenic “changes successful the world, times, and past are taking spot successful unprecedented ways”, KCNA said, quoting from the connection it said was received successful effect to congratulations from Kim aft the Chinese Communist Party Congress past period handed Xi a 3rd term.

Days earlier North Korea’s ICBM launch, Xi met connected the sidelines of a G20 acme successful Bali with US President Joe Biden, who voiced assurance that Beijing does not privation to spot a further escalation by Pyongyang.

Washington has said it wants China, Pyongyang’s astir important state and economical benefactor, to usage its power to assistance rein successful North Korea.

The November 18 rocket motorboat appeared to beryllium Pyongyang’s newest ICBM with the imaginable scope to deed the US mainland.

The United Nations Security Council convened an unfastened gathering implicit the launch, with the US, the United Kingdom, France and India among 14 nations to “strongly condemn” Pyongyang’s actions.

But a Western diplomat told the AFP quality bureau that China and Russia had chosen not to enactment their names to Monday’s statement.

Earlier this month, the US had accused Beijing and Moscow of protecting Pyongyang from further punishment.

In May, China and Russia vetoed a US-led effort to tighten sanctions connected North Korea successful effect to earlier launches.

Pyongyang is already nether aggregate sets of planetary sanctions implicit its atomic and ballistic rocket programmes, and China accounts for much than 90 percent of the impoverished country’s bilateral trade.