{"id":2014,"date":"2021-10-28T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:31:05","slug":"chinas-top-diplomat-meets-north-korea-ambassador-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/china\/chinas-top-diplomat-meets-north-korea-ambassador-to-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s top diplomat meets North Korea ambassador to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct 28 (Asia Free Press): China\u2019s top diplomat Yang Jiechi met North Korea&#8217;s ambassador to China on Thursday and expressed Beijing&#8217;s willingness to maintain high-level interactions and strengthen strategic coordination, according to China&#8217;s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the ministry said, both sides exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula and other issues of common concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is North Korea&#8217;s sole major ally, and has played a leading role in efforts to press the isolated country to dismantle its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korea has persisted with military development, including a recent missile test, despite international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile programmes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Oct 28 (Asia Free Press): China\u2019s top diplomat Yang Jiechi met North Korea&#8217;s ambassador to China on Thursday and expressed Beijing&#8217;s willingness to maintain high-level interactions and strengthen strategic coordination, according to China&#8217;s foreign ministry. In a statement, the ministry said, both sides exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula and other issues of common [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396],"tags":[964,192,963],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-northkorea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}