CHINESE President Xi Jinping will push for a “higher stage” of relations with Pyongyang, North Korean state media said today, as G7 foreign ministers condemned the North’s unprecedented string of weapons tests.
China is North Korea’s long-time treaty ally and main economic benefactor, their relationship forged in the bloodshed of the Korean War when Mao Zedong sent in millions of “volunteers” to fight US-led United Nations forces to a standstill.