During the meeting with the Chinese president in Gyeongju, the South Korean president appealed for the reopening of the dialogue with the DPRK. Xi Jinping confirmed his willingness to cooperate.
At a meeting on Saturday, South Korean President Yi Jae-myong asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him resume dialogue with North Korea (DPRK). This was reported by the AFP agency, writes TASR.
Jae-myong also hosted Xi Jinping after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South Korea. On the part of the current Chinese president, it was his first visit to South Korea in 11 years.
They want to cooperate on dialogue
Before the summit, Si noted that Beijing attaches great importance to relations with Seoul and considers it an inseparable partner in the field of cooperation. At a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, he then expressed his willingness to expand this cooperation and solve challenges together.
“I hope that South Korea and China will strengthen strategic communication… and work together to resume dialogue with North Korea,” Jae-myong Yi said. He stressed the need for stability in the region and pointed to “recent high-level meetings” between China and the DPRK, which agencies said alluded to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s recent participation in a military parade in Beijing.
These contacts also “help create the conditions for the restoration of relations with Pyongyang”, declared I Jae-myong, who shortly after taking office in June promised to establish contact with North Korea and conduct a dialogue with it without preconditions.
Prohibition of cross-border leaflets and propaganda
As part of his policy, the South Korean president, for example, banned activists from sending leaflets across the border and also ordered the cancellation of propaganda broadcasts. However, the representatives of the DPRK rejected the proposals for reconciliation and made it clear that they are not interested in dialogue with South Korea.
Even Jae-myong, according to the Reuters agency, calls for a gradual approach to the nuclear disarmament of the DPRK, starting with engagement and freezing the further development of nuclear weapons. But Pyongyang, Beijing’s military and economic ally, dismisses the denuclearization program as an “impossible dream.”
