Biden says unclear if China can stop another North Korea nuclear test

US president says he told Xi Jinping that Beijing had an obligation' to tell Kim Jong-un to avoid a seventh test

Joe Biden has said he told Xi Jinping that China has an obligation to try to talk North Korea out of conducting a seventh nuclear test, although the US president said it was unclear whether Beijing had the ability to do so.

Biden met Xi for more than three hours on Monday, ahead of the G20 summit in Bali, their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took power. At a press conference after the meeting, Biden said he told Xi that I thought they had an obligation to attempt to make it clear" to North Korea that it should not go ahead with a test.