Anyone undermining peace, stability on Korean Peninsula will pay heavy price: Chinese FM

BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Thursday that anyone undermining peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula region will pay a heavy price.

Anyone trying to use the Korean Peninsula issue to revive the retrogressive Cold War confrontation will be held accountable by history, Wang told a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the national legislature when commenting on recent tensions on the peninsula.

The lingering Korean Peninsula issue has a clear root cause. That is, Cold War vestiges persist, a peace mechanism remains absent, and the security issue is yet to be fundamentally resolved, he said.