Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump that the armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War... be turned into a peace treaty... signed by the two Koreas, the U.S. and China.<br /> Citing multiple U.S. and Chinese diplomatic sources, Japan-based Kyodo News reported-- that President Xi had made the proposal in a phone conversation with President Trump on March 9th.<br />That's a couple of weeks before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited President Xi in China.<br />The Kyodo report highlighted that Japan and Russia, though members of the long-stalled six-party denuclearization talks,... were excluded from President Xi's proposal as a way to seize the initiative on the North Korea issue.<br />It said President Trump did not reply definitively to the suggestion but did ask China to keep up its pressure on the North. <br />
