Obama and Xi ‘aligned’ on N Korea issue

ALJAZEERA: …White House national security adviser Tom Donilon says the common ground between Obama and Xi on North Korea provides a key for enhanced US-China co-operation.

“They agreed that North Korea has to denuclearise, that neither country will accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state and that we would work together to deepen co-operation and dialogue to achieve denuclearisation,” he said on Saturday, at the end of two days of meeting between Obama and Xi at an estate in the California desert.

China is Pyongyang’s ally but has become increasingly concerned at North Korean threats of war against South Korea… (more)

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