China urges UN to ease N. Korea sanctions, says dialogue must not 'regress'

South Korean protestersin Seoul holding signages during a rally to demand the peace on the Korean peninsula and to stop sanctions on North Korea. - AP

BEIJING: China on Tuesday (Dec 17) urged the United Nations Security Council to unanimously adopt a draft resolution it introduced with Russia to ease some sanctions on nuclear-armed North Korea.

"Dialogue and contact should be restored as soon as possible to break the deadlock and to prevent the dialogue process from derailing or even regressing," said foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang.