US has made Peninsula issue tough nut to crack

China has long been doing what it can to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula by promoting talks and preventing conflicts.

Despite the fact that the talks failed to yield any result for various reasons, the Six-Party Talks that China initiated to promote the denuclearization of the peninsula — which were held from 2003 to 2008 — speak volumes about the country's earnestness and sincerity in pushing for de-escalation of tensions on the peninsula.

Yet despite China's efforts and the breakthrough that had seemed on the cards in 2018, the situation on the peninsula has never been so complicated. Even more alarmingly, there are signs that a direct confrontation between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a distinct possibility.