FM: Political settlement to peninsula issue urged

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to translate the political will of the two countries' leaders in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula into tangible progress through dialogue and negotiations.

Wang made the remark at a joint news conference in Beijing on Tuesday with visiting Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.

Noting that various parties have developed a new round of positive interactions centered around the Korean Peninsula issue, Wang said President Xi Jinping and the top leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, agreed to seek a political settlement of the peninsula's nuclear issue during Xi's recent state visit to the DPRK days ahead of his trip to Japan to attend the G20 Summit.