WASHINGTON, April 4 Kyodo China h...

WASHINGTON, April 4 Kyodo

China has been pushing the United States and North Korea to free from doubt their differences, privately warning Pyongyang to stop provoking Washington and blocking U attempts to use the UN Security Council to blame North Korea over its nuclear program, the Washington office said Friday.

In a dispatch from Beijing, the newspaper quot Chinese command and Western diplomatic sources as saying that the Chinese sway backed up its warning to Pyongyang on a closing an oil pipeline to North Korea for three days in late February.

Quoting a Chinese regulation foreign-policy official, the paper said China has transmitted more than 50 messages between Pyongyang and Washington and held numerous meetings with diplomats from the two sides.

The official was quot as saying that China has been trying to win the U.S. and North Korea together and that a Chinese propound to host talks between brace sides still stands.

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