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 by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2019
The US special envoy for North Korea is visiting Beijing to coordinate policies with China, officials said Tuesday, a month after the failure of a denuclearisation summit. Stephen Biegun, Washington's North Korea envoy, is here to "continue US-China coordination on policies related to North Korea", a US embassy spokesman told AFP, declining to share more details. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing that Beijing "has always maintained close communication and coordination with the relevant parties on the general affairs of the Korean Peninsula." Biegun's visit to the Chinese capital overlaps with the arrival of a high-ranking North Korean, who was greeted by Chinese government officials and Pyongyang's envoy to Beijing on Tuesday, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency. Yonhap, citing diplomatic sources, said the visiting official is believed to be Ri Su Yong, vice chairman of the North's ruling Workers' Party, who was making a stopover in Beijing en route to Laos. Geng said he had no information about Ri's reported stopover. It was not clear whether the visits by the US and North Korean officials were related. Biegun's trip comes after US President Donald Trump abruptly cut short the February 27-28 summit in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid fundamental differences between the two sides over dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. The summit, the leaders' second in under a year, broke up without even a joint statement, and each sought to blame the other's intransigence for the deadlock. Both sides pledged to continue talking, but no new meetings have been scheduled. In mid-March, Biegun said Washington's goal was the complete denuclearisation of North Korea by the end of Trump's first term, and that it would not settle for incremental disarmament. "We will not lift these sanctions until NK (North Korea) completes the process of denuclearisation," he said. But on Friday Trump abruptly announced the cancellation of new sanctions on North Korea imposed by the US treasury. China has played diplomatic wingman to North Korea -- even loaning Kim an Air China jet to travel to his landmark first meeting with Trump in Singapore last year -- as Beijing is intent on keeping Pyongyang within its sphere of influence. The North acts as a buffer state, keeping the 28,500 US troops in South Korea far from China's borders. In January, Beijing hosted Kim for the fourth time prior to his Hanoi summit with Trump -- visits that have become something of a ritual, with Kim briefing Chinese President Xi Jinping before and after his meetings with Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. ewx-prw/lth/amz
China protests US sanctions on shipping firms Beijing (AFP) March 22, 2019 China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the United States after Washington sanctioned two Chinese shipping companies for doing business with North Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday. Beijing said it has consistently enforced all UN resolutions on North Korea after the US Treasury Department added two Chinese firms to a sanctions list on Thursday. The US Treasury sanctioned Dalian Haibo International Freight Co. Ltd. for shipping cargo from the Chinese port of Dalian to North Korea on beh ... read more
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