Beijing and Seoul to cooperate on Korean peninsula denuclearization

Almaty. October 31. Silkroadnews - Beijing and Seoul to cooperate on Korean peninsula denuclearization, the Kazakh Telegraph Agency (KazTAG) reports with reference to TASS.
During the talks in the Chinese capital Special Representative of the Chinese Government on the Korean Peninsula Affairs Kong Xuanyou and Nam Gwan-Pyo, Seoul’s deputy director of national security, agreed to intensify cooperation on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The sides, as reported, discussed the feasibility of the U.S. THAAD system deployment in South Korea.
The Chinese side expressed their concerns in this regard, in turn, the representative of Seoul noted that the authorities of the Republic of Korea take into account the position of Beijing. The parties agreed to boost their interaction at the level of the two states’ armed forces to resolve the issue of the U.S. THAAD system deployment in South Korean, the Foreign Ministry noted.
According to the representative of the Republic of Korea, all the actions by the South Korean government to deploy strategic U.S. missile systems in the region are not aimed at any third country.
To remind, in June 2016 South Korea decided to deploy the U.S. anti-ballistic missile defense system THAAD in its territory. The system is designed to shoot down the ballistic missiles in their terminal phase. The THAAD missile defense system was developed to protect the troops of the United States and its allies, as well as cities and important facilities, from both short-range ballistic missiles and strategic warheads.