Posted on 05/04/2017 6:13:42 AM PDT by blam
BEIJING (Reuters) China said on Thursday it wants to be good neighbors with North Korea, after the isolated countrys state news agency published a rare criticism of Chinese state media commentaries calling for tougher sanctions over the Norths nuclear program.
The United States has urged China, North Koreas only major ally, to do more to rein in the Norths nuclear and missile programs, which have prompted an assertive response from the Trump administration, warning that an era of strategic patience is over.
A commentary carried by North Koreas KCNA news agency referred to recent commentaries in Chinas Peoples Daily and Global Times newspapers, which it said were widely known as media speaking for the official stand of the Chinese party and government.
In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Chinas position was consistent and clear.
Chinas position on developing friendly, good-neighborly relations with North Korea is also consistent and clear, Geng told reporters, in response to a question about the KCNA commentary.
China was unswervingly devoted to the denuclearization of the peninsula and maintaining peace and security and resolving the issue through talks, Geng added.
The WeChat account of the overseas edition of the Peoples Daily, in its reaction to the KCNA piece, said it was clear that North Koreas nuclear and missile activities were a threat to China.
North Korea has not left the Cold War behind and does not want to, and is enmeshed in a web of its own spinning of antagonism between its enemies and itself, it said.
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