Anchor: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Friday to work together to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem. But they fell short of producing a specific solution. Trump during the talks continued to press Xi that he would have to act alone if China is unable to coordinate on the North Korea issue.
Kim Bum-soo has more. 

Report: 

[Sound bite: U.S. President Donald Trump]
"I think we have made tremendous progress in our relationship with China... And I think, truly, progress has been made."

[Sound bite: Chinese President Xi Jinping (Chinese)]
"I believe that we will be able to work together for the prosperity of the two countries and their people and for world peace and stability."

The two presidents, however, appear to have failed to find common ground on how to solve the North Korean nuclear issue. 

The first-ever Trump-Xi summit in Florida did not produce a joint statement and there was no news conference afterwards.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson instead held a briefing, saying that the two sides agreed that the North's nuclear advancement has reached "a very serious stage." 

President Trump was cited as telling President Xi that the U.S. is prepared to chart its own course if China is unable to coordinate on the North Korea issue. 

Tillerson emphasized the two sides agreed to work with the international community to convince North Korea to peacefully resolve the issue, but no package arrangement was produced.

Professor Kim Hyun-wook of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy said that Trump and Xi couldn't find a mutually-satisfactory answer to the North Korea problem.

[Sound bite: Prof. Kim Hyun-wook - Korea National Diplomatic Academy (English)]
"There is a red line that the Chinese would not accept. They do not want the regime collapse of North Korea, which is an important buffer state. From the Trump government's perspective that red line should be broken so that more effective sanction measures should be implemented to denuclearize North Korea. I think that in the future, it is very likely that the Trump government would do more unilateral measures, like the secondary boycott or secondary sanction measures, vis-a-vis China so that China would more actively denuclearize North Korea."

In the bilateral talks, which were overshadowed by the U.S.'s sudden military strikes against Syria, Trump managed to draw Xi's agreement to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China. 

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross told reporters that the two sides agreed to a "100-day plan" to increase U.S. exports to China.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News. 

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