South Korea's president-elect asks China to join hands to tackle North Korea

South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to work together to tackle issues related to North Korea, his spokeswoman said, a day after Pyongyang fired a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile."Yoon stressed that public concerns have grown big as tensions escalate following North Korea's serious provocation," the spokeswoman said after the president-elect and Xi held phone talks.Yoon of South Korea's conservative main opposition party called on Xi to "cooperate closely to achieve permanent denuclearization of North Korea and stable managem…READ FULL ARTICLE