Foreign ministers of South Korea and China have held talks to discuss ways to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula triggered by North Korea’s threats of war.

In the talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed Japanese Cabinet officials’ recent visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine as well.

The two ministers also discussed a planned trip to China by President Park Geun-hye but agreed to coordinate a specific date later.

Foreign Minister Yun will return home after meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Wang Jiarui, chief of the Chinese Communist Party's International Liaison Department on Wednesday.

The meeting of the two foreign ministers is their first since the launch of the new governments in both countries.