Pacific Rim nations wrapped up their annual summit Saturday with a statement underscoring regional economic cooperation, just days after the presidents of the United States and China agreed to dial down their trade war.

President Lee Jae-myung said at the Korea-China summit on the 1st, “We highly evaluate the situation where conditions for engagement with North Korea are being formed, as high-level exchanges between China and North Korea have recently become active,

We will show with patience that denuclearization is a 'pipe dream' which can never be realized,' says vice foreign minister - Anadolu Ajansı

North Korea said on Saturday that denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, which South Korea said will be discussed in a summit with China later that day, is an unrealisable "pipe dream," according to state media KCNA.