Beijing: On Thursday, after President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart said Pyongyang would face the "end" of its leadership if it used its nuclear arsenal, China warned Washington and Seoul against "provoking confrontation" with North Korea.

According to Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, "all parties should confront the core of the (Korean peninsula) issue and play a constructive role in promoting a peaceful settlement of the issue."

She urged against "deliberately provoking conflict, playing up threats, and escalating tensions."
Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol made it abundantly clear at a summit in Washington that the North Korean dictatorship would face a devastating response if it attacked either the South or the US.

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The two sides also concurred that in response to the North's missile tests, the US security shield for South Korea would be strengthened.

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Beijing criticised that choice on Thursday, claiming that Washington "ignores regional security and insists on exploiting the peninsula issue to create tension."
According to Mao, "What the US is doing... incites conflict between camps, threatens the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and jeopardises the strategic interests of other nations."

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She continued, saying that US actions "intensify tensions on the peninsula, threaten regional stability and peace, and are in direct opposition to the goal of denuclearization on the peninsula."