US urged to take actions for peninsula peace talks

The United States should "look squarely" at the crux of the Korean Peninsula issue and take practical and tangible actions to create conditions for peace talks and political settlement, a Chinese envoy to the United Nations said on Friday.

Tension persists on the Korean Peninsula with confrontations escalating, and China finds it deeply concerning, Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, said at a Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The Korean Peninsula issue, a legacy of the Cold War that has cast a decadeslong shadow, is in essence a security issue, Geng said.