Wang Yi backs DPRK's summit talks

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China supports Pyongyang's upcoming summit meetings with Seoul and Washington and that China will continue to work for denuclearization and the establishment of a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula.

Wang made the remark while meeting with Ri Yongho, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Tuesday in Beijing.

Wang said that during top DPRK leader Kim Jong-un's recent visit to China, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, reached a consensus with Kim on developing China-DPRK relations and on promoting the peaceful settlement of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.