Groundless to accuse Beijing of stalling Korean progress

United States President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that his secretary of state is postponing a planned visit to Pyongyang until the "trading relationship with China is resolved". Considering the lack of progress in China-US trade talks, that could be quite a while.

It is one thing to say a trade war with China is distracting, it is another thing to blame Beijing for the less than fruitful progress in negotiations between the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Beijing retorted angrily to Trump making such an accusation, stating it is continuing to help with the process of denuclearization. Denouncing it as irresponsible, the Chinese foreign ministry said it was "seriously concerned" by Trump's "capricious" accusations and said it has lodged an official diplomatic complaint over the comments.