The situation in the Korean Peninsula is particularly sensitive, as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched a nuclear test recently. (Photo : Getty Images)
According to a China Daily report, Beijing said it has "maximized its efforts" to address the recent Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. The statement comes as the Chinese capital was accused of not doing enough to handle the matter.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday that a senior official with the ministry has "elaborated China's stance (on the test) to the leading official of the DPRK embassy in Beijing" after Pyongyang held its first hydrogen bomb test a day earlier.
Reports have also surfaced that countermeasures are currently unfolding on the Korean Peninsula. This includes the news that Seoul and Washington are considering "steps amid rising international criticism of the DPRK's fourth test since 2006," the article cited.
On Thursday, Seoul's Defense Ministry said the Korean leaders are discussing with the U.S. to deploy the latter's strategic assets in the wake of the bomb test, a report from The Associated Press stated.
Hua said that the government "expresses concerns over the development of the situation," urging all those involved to "get back on the track of resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue through the Six-Party Talks."
The talks, which involved the DPRK, the U.S., ROK, Japan, Russia and China, stalled back in Dec. 2008.
For analysts like Yang Xiyu, a senior researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, no single party is winning after the bomb test and that the situation is a "lose-lose" one.
Yang said that the "peninsula is drifting away from the goal of denuclearization, and any countermeasures taken by Seoul and Washington might only worsen the security situation on the peninsula," China Daily said.
Meanwhile, Hua also noted that the country has attended a closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York last week. A statement stressed that members of the council will "begin to work immediately on . . . measures in a new Security Council resolution."
