Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned the situation on the Korean Peninsula "risks getting out of control" ahead of a key United Nations Security Council meeting on North Korea's nuclear program to be held on Friday.
Mr Wang met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov in New York to urge Russia to "maintain close communication" with China over the Korean nuclear crisis. Mr Wang also met with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
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China and Russia believed all parties should carry out United Nations Security Council resolutions on North Korea, according to a statement released by China's foreign ministry.
The UN meeting of foreign ministers will attempt to reach agreement on tougher sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime should he fire a new missile or conduct a sixth nuclear test.
While US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said China would play a critical role in putting economic pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear program, a flurry of diplomatic activity this week between Beijing and Moscow has highlighted the need to have Russia, which also trades with North Korea, onboard for tighter sanctions to have effect.
North Korean media had this week feted Russia and reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had criticised the US threat of military force to resolve the Korean Peninsula "issue" as "inviting terrible consequences".
North Korean's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, had claimed on Friday that Mr Gatilov would push the view that Russia didn't want the US conducting military drills on the Korean Peninsula in the Security Council meeting on Friday.
China has proposed a "dual suspension", with the US and South Korea agreeing to stop military exercises on the Korean Peninsula in exchange for North Korea freezing its weapons program.
Echoing the language that Washington has directed at Beijing in recent weeks, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that the US was "one of the main parties on the Korean nuclear issue" and China expected the US to "shoulder its due responsibility in settling the issue".
Mr Trump told Reuters in an interview to mark his 100th day in office "there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea".
Mr Trump said he wanted to "solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult". He also conceded that Chinese President Xi Jinping was "trying very hard" to do something about North Korea, but added, "perhaps it's possible that he can't".
China's official media has notably hardened its line on North Korea, and supports China cutting oil supplies to its neighbour.
The Global Times newspaper, in an editorial titled "China and North Korean ties will get worse", stated the precondition for improving the relationship was North Korea "not violating China's national interest and not making Beijing pay the bills for Pyongyang's extreme policies".
North Korea's nuclear program has "severely violated" China's national interest, and given the US an excuse to deploy its military in the region, it said. The editorial told Chinese readers that imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea wasn't doing the bidding of Washington.
It also said China was powerful enough to defend itself against North Korea if it came to a "showdown".
The deployment of the US THAAD anti-missile shield outside of Seoul this week prompted an angry joint statement from the Chinese and Russian military.