SEOUL –
Chinese president Xi Jinping and the new South Korean president, Moon Jae-in on Thursday by telephone to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula. The conversation lasted forty minutes, and it was according to the spokesperson of the Moon for the first time that a Chinese president of a South Korean colleague called for him or her to congratulate, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Xi and Moon agreed that relations between their two countries continue to improve. That were under pressure by the stationing of an American antiraketsysteem in South Korea. The placement of the THAAD system was a response to North Korean tests nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
In the phone call, Xi said the Moon of that the question about the THAAD system can only be resolved if North Korea stops provocations. Xi said that all parties should work together to the tensions around the nuclear and ballistic weapons, and North Korea to reduce.