China is welcoming news of a seeming détente on the Korean peninsula after North and South Korea agreed to re-open communications following months of tensions.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Wednesday termed the offer of diplomatic dialogue from Kim Jong-un and the South’s upbeat response as “positive signs.”
“At the beginning of the new year 2018, a positive signal has emerged from the Korean peninsula,” the Xinhua editorial read. “It is hoped the Korean peninsula can come out of a frozen state” of tensions.
Xinhua noted the speed with which tensions eased after a New Year’s speech by Kim that communicated the North’s willingness to send the North Korean national team to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Xinhua’s editorial also gave high marks for South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s positive response, and Seoul’s proposal to hold high-level talks with the North on Tuesday.

Did you just wake up from a 30 year sleep? It is Bejing not Peking. Another thing an offer of talks and an offer to send the NK National Olympis Team to the Olympics is no small improvement in the face of US working it`s azz off trying to destroy both countries in a war. Nothing enrages the US like talks of peace. Their entire economy is war.
NK does as it is told by its Communist Chinese overlords.
After supplying NK with coal, oil and money, and who knows what else, Peking now wants to curry some favour with alarmed onlooking nations.
So we see a little pantomine played out, as Seol and NK are allowed, for now, to hold hands again.
The elephant in the room is Peking’s total control and domination of NK, the crazy bad boy, who threatens the world with nuclear disaster.
This is really Peking’s dream, it is just not ‘politically correct’ to show Peking’s true colours yet.
However, sadly, Peking’s desire to rule Asia, with an iron fist, is becoming all too clear.