China-based stance on North Korea's ICBM launch...Attention on Changes in Expression on the Korean Peninsula

With North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test-firing, China has repeated its existing principled stance, but has changed its expression of the Korean Peninsula.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Zhen said when asked at a regular briefing, "It is in the common interest of each party to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula and promote a political solution."

However, in the course of the answer, the expression 'Pen peninsula' was mentioned four times, but the existing Chinese expression 'Joseon Peninsula' referring to North Korea was never used.

This is interpreted as a change between lines that indirectly indicates the inconvenience of fluctuating the situation on the Korean Peninsula following the recent dispatch of North Korean troops to Russia and the launch of ICBMs.