BEIJING (Reuters) -&nbsp;China's Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has lodged solemn representations with the&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;ambassador&nbsp;over&nbsp;"erroneous"&nbsp;remarks&nbsp;by the&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;president about&nbsp;Taiwan,&nbsp;China's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
In an exclusive interview with Reuters,&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;President Yoon Suk Yeol said increased tensions around&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;were due to attempts to change the status quo by force, and he opposed such a change.
"The&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;issue is not simply an issue between&nbsp;China&nbsp;and&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;but, like the issue of North Korea, it is a global issue," Yoon said.
Yoon's&nbsp;remarks&nbsp;are "totally unacceptable," Sun said, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.
"The&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;leader made no mention of the One&nbsp;China&nbsp;principle, but equated the&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;issue with the&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;Peninsula issue," Sun said.
"Both North and&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea are sovereign states that have joined the United Nations. It is a well-known fact that the&nbsp;Korean&nbsp;Peninsula issue and the&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;issue are completely different in nature and in latitude and longitude, and are not comparable at all."
China&nbsp;says democratically ruled&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;is part of its own territory, a position Taipei strongly rejects, and demands that countries with which it has ties must adopt its position that&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;is Chinese territory.
Sun's&nbsp;complaint&nbsp;followed criticism from the Chinese foreign ministry last week that&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea should "prudently" handle matters related to&nbsp;Taiwan.&nbsp;South&nbsp;Korea hit back by summoning&nbsp;China's ambassador to protest at Beijing's&nbsp;remarks.
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(Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Kim Coghill and William Mallard)

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