China's Global Times came up with yet another report analysing the role that India is aiming to play in the Korean Peninsula affairs by sending its Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh to North Korea in the third week of May. In a piece titled 'India seeks major power status by pivot to NK' authored by an expert on international affairs, it was argued that India's decision to send a high-level diplomat to the hermit kingdom after a long time (North Korean foreign minister had visited New Delhi in 2015 which saw the highest-level North Korean official coming to India in more than three decades) had two main purposes to serve.