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China, Russia urge end to vicious cycle

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov urged all parties to seek a "peaceful resolution" to the current stand-off with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.

"The Korean Peninsula nuclear problem must be solved through peaceful means," it quoted Wang as saying, adding that "the current deepening vicious cycle must be broken".

"Restoring peace talks is also a necessary step to carrying out the UN Security Council's resolution," he said.

Lavrov said Russia's position on the issue is "completely identical" to China's, the statement said.

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Russia has joined China's call for a "dual-track" approach in which North Korea suspends its weapons programme in return for the United States halting military drills in the region.

The White House said earlier that US President Donald Trump had spoken with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping over the phone, saying the two leaders were "committed to maximizing pressure on North Korea through vigorous enforcement of United Nations Security Council resolutions".

Trump is currently in New York for the UN General Assembly but Xi -- who has a major Communist Party congress next month that will cement his leadership for the next five years -- is not attending the event.

The UN Security Council last week imposed a fresh set of sanctions, though Washington toned down its original proposals to secure support from China and Russia.

Regional tensions have soared this month as North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test and staged an intermediate-range missile test over Japan.

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Trump has not ruled out a military option for dealing with Pyongyang.

The US flew four F-35B stealth fighter jets and two B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula on Monday in a show of force.

Separately, China and Russia began a joint naval exercise east of the Korean peninsula.

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