Hope for peace and stability on Korean peninsula: China

China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Beijing hopes for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, amid escalating tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remarks during a daily briefing in Beijing.

Also read — North Korea blows up liaison office with South: Seoul

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border on Tuesday, the South's Unification Ministry said, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang.

"North Korea blows up Kaesong Liaison Office at 14:49," the ministry, which handles inter-Korean relations, said in a one-line alert sent to reporters.