The U.S. and China agreed to continue to pressure North Korea in the pursuit of realizing the “final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK”, the U.S. Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a press release on Monday.

The statement comes after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and the Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Yang Jiech in Beijing on the same day, with the press release issued by the State Department referencing the contents of the bilateral