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China slams Trump’s ‘irresponsible’ accusations over N. Korea
BEIJING, Aug 25, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – China on Saturday denounced Donald
Trump’s accusation that Beijing is stalling efforts to disarm North Korea
as “irresponsible”, after the US president said an upcoming trip to
Pyongyang by his top envoy had been cancelled due to lack of progress on
the issue.
“The US statement is contrary to basic facts and is irresponsible. We are
seriously concerned about this,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang
said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
Trump said Friday that “because of our much tougher trading stance with
China, I do not believe they are helping with the process of
denuclearization as they once were,” despite UN sanctions against the
nuclear-armed regime.
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