SEOUL – North Korea on Wednesday criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s current go to to Beijing as a “begging trip” to ease tensions in what it referred to as a coverage failure to strain China.
At one of the vital vital US-China exchanges since US President Joe Biden took workplace, Blinken and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Monday and agreed to stabilize their intense rivalry so it didn’t veer into battle.
Blinken mentioned after the assembly on Monday that he urged China to encourage North Korea to cease launching missiles as Beijing holds a “unique position” to press Pyongyang to have interaction in dialogue.
In a commentary carried by the North’s KCNA news company, Jong Yong Hak, whom it described as a world affairs analyst, mentioned the uncommon go to was geared toward begging for the comfort of tensions because the “attempt to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy.”
“In a word, the US state secretary’s recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgraceful begging trip of the provoker admitting the failure of the policy of putting pressure on China,” the commentary mentioned.
The commentary mentioned the United States was accountable for escalating regional tensions with “anti-China complexes,” such because the QUAD grouping with Japan, India and Australia and the AUKUS pact with Britain and Australia.
“It is the height of the double-dealing and impudence peculiar to the US to provoke first and then talk about the so-called ‘responsible control over divergence of opinion,'” the commentary mentioned.
Daniel Kritenbrink, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs who was additionally on the Beijing journey, is predicted to go to South Korea on Wednesday to transient Seoul officers on the 2 days of talks in China, South Korea’s Yonhap news company reported. —Reuters
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