China and South Korea differ on approach to North

China and South Korea found some accord Thursday on the need to engage North Korea on its nuclear weapons program, but leaders from the two countries continued to espouse different approaches for resuming talks with the hermit state, The Wall Street Journal reported. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said after the Beijing summit that North Korea must take steps to stop its nuclear weapons program before talks resume. China’s Xi Jinping took a less aggressive approach that emphasized restarting multilateral talks including the US, Russia and Japan. The two sides agreed, however, that North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons is “unacceptable,” Park said.