U.S. President Joe Biden will warn Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting on Monday that North Korea's continued pursuit of weapons development will lead to an enhanced U.S. military presence in the region, the White House said, Reuters reported.

The United States is concerned that North Korea plans to resume nuclear bomb testing for the first time since 2017, and believes China and Russia have the leverage to persuade it not to do so.

Biden and Xi are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting as national leaders on the sidelines of a summit of the G20 grouping of countries in the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden would tell Xi that North Korea represented a threat, not just to the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan, but to peace and stability across the entire region.

"If North Korea keeps going down this road, it will simply mean further enhanced American military and security presence in the region," he told reporters.

Daniel Russel, the senior U.S. diplomat for East Asia under former President Barack Obama, said recently that China could eventually become a restraining factor.

The day before his meeting with Xi, Biden will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol in Cambodia to discuss how to rein in North Korea's nuclear program.

Sullivan also said Biden hoped his first face-to-face talks with Xi would lead to more such meetings.