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Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung is a Seoul correspondent at NK News. Before joining NK News, she covered disinformation and technology with a focus on the Korean Peninsula at Coda Story.
South Korea’s top nuclear envoy raised concerns about North Korea’s recent activity at its Punggye-ri nuclear testing site with his Chinese counterpart and urged Beijing to play a “constructive role” in bringing Pyongyang back to the dialogue table, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Noh Kyu-duk shared the sentiments with Liu Xiaoming, China’s Korea Peninsula policy representative, as Liu visits Seoul as part of what appears to be a diplomatic outreach campaign following North Korea’s missile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in March.