China Scraps US-Led Censure of North Korea at UNSC | Farsnews Agency

(FNA)- China’s UN ambassador has called on the United States to be more flexible in its dealings with North Korea, as Beijing joined others to scrap a US-drafted Security Council joint statement condemning Pyongyang’s recent missile launches, according to diplomats.

Washington had proposed a statement decrying those launches, but China and Russia, along with other nations, refused to sign on to it, the diplomats told the AFP news agency on Friday.

“If they do want to see some new breakthrough, they should show more sincerity and flexibility,” China’s Ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, said of US officials ahead of a closed-door meeting convened at Washington’s request on North Korea.

“They should come up with more attractive and more practical, more flexible approaches, policies and actions and accommodating the concerns of the DPRK,” Zhang told reporters, using the initials of the North’s official name.

“What I see is the key in solving this issue is already in the hands of the United States,” Zhang added.