South Korea's National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han (Photo: Yonhap/VNA)

According to the presidential office, South Korea's National Security Adviser Kim Sung-han spoke to his China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and discussed various issues of mutual interest, including North Korea's missile launches.

Kim said North Korea's nuclear and missile program poses a risk to regional peace and stability, and called on China to play "an active, constructive role" in persuading Pyongyang to refrain from further provocations and return to dialogue, according to the office. Yang expressed concerns about the growing uncertainties on the Korean Peninsula and affirmed China's role in promoting inter-Korean relations to reach a diplomatic solution to that end.