INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Joe Biden will warn Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting on Monday that North Korea&s continued pursuit of weapons
development will lead to an enhanced US military presence in the region, the White House said.The United States is concerned that North
Korea plans to resume nuclear bomb testing for the first time since 2017 and believes China and Russia have the leverage to persuade it not
to do so, Reuters reported.Biden and Xi are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting as national leaders on the sidelines of a summit of
the G20 grouping of countries in the Indonesian resort island of Bali.White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden would
tell Xi that North Korea represented a threat, not just to the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan, but to peace and
stability across the entire region.&If North Korea keeps going down this road, it will simply mean further enhanced American military and
security presence in the region,& he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, as Biden flew to Cambodia for regional meetings at the
weekend.&And so the People&s Republic of China has an interest in playing a constructive role in restraining North Korea&s worst
tendencies,& Sullivan added, using the country&s official name.&Whether they choose to do so or not, is, of course, up to them.&US-led
international sanctions have failed to halt North Korea&s growing weapons programs
Its record-breaking regime of weapons tests this year have included intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to reach the US mainland,
Reuters reported.While China and Russia backed toughened United Nations sanctions after North Korea&s last nuclear test in 2017, in May they
vetoed a US-led push for more UN penalties over its renewed ballistic missile launches.US officials have accused both countries of enabling
Pyongyang&s missile and bomb programs by failing to properly enforce UN Security Council sanctions.The post North Korea weapons development
pursuit may prompt bigger US military presence: Biden first appeared on Ariana News.
