China Sending Envoy to North Korea After Trump Talks With Xi
November 15, 2017 by admin
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is dispatching a special envoy to visit North Korea this week, shortly after he hosted U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Beijing.
Song Tao, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department, will visit Pyongyang on Friday to brief North Korean officials about last month’s once-in-five-year leadership reshuffle, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
While the department traditionally briefs Communist allies after the party congress, the timing suggests Song may be carrying a message from the Xi-Trump talks. Song had earlier visited Vietnam and Laos from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 to brief those Communist governments on changes within the party.
The trip will be the first high-level Chinese visit to North Korea this year. Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin visited Pyongyang last October, and then-Chinese special envoy Wu Dawei visited in February 2016. He has since retired and it’s unclear if his successor, Kong Xuanyou, has visited the country since he took up the job in August.
North Korea was on top of Trump’s agenda on his visit to Beijing, where he called on China to put more pressure on its ally to give up its quest to obtain the ability to strike the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.
Official statements from both the White House and Beijing regarding Trump’s visit to China did not refer to any specific progress on North Korea.
“One striking thing was North Korea was absent from his outcome list,” said Shi Yinhong, a foreign affairs adviser to the State Council and director of Renmin University’s Center on American Studies in Beijing. “Apparently, Beijing didn’t make any compromises. But we don’t know what happened behind-the-scenes.”
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China is sending a high-level special envoy to North Korea. The move follows President Donald Trump’s visit to China last week, where he pushed Beijing to use its influence to pressure Kim Jong Un into stopping his nuclear war threats.
China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that Song Tao, director of the ruling Communist Party’s International Liaison Department, would travel to North Korea on Friday.
The announcement did not mention Trump or the U.S.
China remains the sole protector of the North Korean regime, a relationship that has been a source of friction between officials in Washington and Beijing. Trump has previously criticized China, saying its leaders were not using their influence in Pyongyang to help the U.S. convince North Korea to tone down its rhetoric and end its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
“North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success,” the president said in September.
Following last week’s meetings — which were part of Trump’s five-nation Asia tour — the president sounded optimistic in a Twitter message.
“President Xi of China has stated that he is upping the sanctions against #NoKo. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made,” the president tweeted.
Song would become the first high-level Chinese official to visit North Korea since October 2015, when a member of the Communist Party Politburo committee met with Kim.
The International Liaison Department, in charge of the Chinese communist party’s relations with foreign political parties, has effectively taken the lead in conducting China’s diplomacy with North Korea, Reuters reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.