US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he supported the efforts of South Korea to develop "healthy and mature" relations with China, Reuters reports, citing South Korean Foreign Ministry.

Blinken, who will be visiting Beijing on Sunday, discussed bilateral relations, China-South Korea relations, and North Korea in a conversation with the SK Foreign Minister Park Jin on Saturday, the ministry's statement said.

According to the ministry, Secretary Blinken and FM Park condemned North Korea's “continued unlawful ballistic missile launches."