China will negotiate economic and trade issues with North Korea to contribute to the "stability and denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula, in line with United Nations resolutions. This is the position of the Beijing Ministry of Commerce, confirmed today at a press conference by spokesman Gao Feng, a few hours after the telephone conversation on Thursday evening, local time, between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump. , in which Xi stressed that China insists on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the peaceful resolution of the tension. Gao responded to a question about the possibility of an oil embargo against North Korea contained in a draft UN Security Council resolution following the latest nuclear test in Pyongyang, the most powerful ever conducted by the Kim Jong regime. , last Sunday. Gao specified that the Chinese government has always followed up the UN resolutions on North Korea and fulfilled its international obligations.
