Kim Jong Un vows to strengthen ties with China and together 'frustrate' threats from US
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to strengthen ties with China and together ''frustrate'' threats and hostile policies from the United States and its allies.In response, China's President Xi Jinping said Beijing is ready to work, together with the Korean side, to steadily develop the China-Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) relations of friendship and cooperation"under a new situation."China’s UN ambassador said Friday the US should come up with “more attractive and more practical” policies and actions to reduce tensions with North Korea and avoid a return to a “vicious circle” of confrontation, condemnation and sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programme. In rare remarks to reporters on Beijing’s views on the US-North Korean nuclear dispute, the Chinese ambassador said, “What I see is the key in solving this issue is already in the hands of the United States.”Pyongyang is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. But regardless, it has warned it could abandon its self-imposed moratorium and resume testing intercontinental ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons.Some experts have warned that with the eyes of the world focussed on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea might take the opportunity to test-fire long-range missiles.