CHINA-NORTH KOREA: CHINA APPOINTS ITS FORMER AMBASSADOR TO U.K. LIU XIAOMING AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON KOREAN PENINSULA AFFAIRS

China’s former ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, has been appointed (April 12) as the new Special Representative on Korean peninsula affairs replacing Kong Xuanyou, China’s envoy to Japan. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said he will help coordinate Beijing’s policy on North Korea. Liu Xiaoming was China’s ambassador to North Korea between 2006 and 2010. According to a 2015 article on the Sino-North Korean research website, Pyongyang was displeased with him when he was the envoy and reportedly asked Beijing to recall him after “North Korean intelligence services … overheard him tell a group of Chinese investors that they should take their money elsewhere and not invest in North Korea”.





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