Kim rings amenable note on nuke talks
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May 8, 2010, Saturday
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North Korea's top leader Kim Jong II expressed a willingness to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks while on five-day unofficial visit to China, but gave no firm date for restarting the process that Pyongyang abandoned more than a year ago.
Kim's private, armored train crossed the border back into North Korea yesterday morning after leaving Beijing on Thursday following talks with President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders that touched on the six-nation talks aimed at ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains unchanged in sticking to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, Kim told Hu in Beijing.
The six parties -- China, the United States, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- should demonstrate sincerity and make positive efforts for pushing forward the talks, said the two leaders.
Kim said his country will work with China to create favorable conditions for restarting the six-party talks, which started in 2003 but hit a snag in April 2009 when Pyongyang pulled out of the talks in protest of the United Nations condemnation of its missile tests.
Fifth visit
This was Kim's fifth visit to China since the new century with the latest in 2006. Besides Beijing, Kim also toured economic development zones, bonded ports and hi-tech companies in the cities of Dalian, Tianjin and Shenyang.
During each of his visits to China, Kim said, he could always witness the new achievements made by the Chinese people. China's achievements are a great encouragement to the people of the DPRK, he said.
With the principle of mutual benefit and win-win, North Korea welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in the country and will actively lift the quality of bilateral cooperation, Kim said.
In Dalian, a booming coastal city in northeast China, Kim told officials in his delegation to study the experience of China's renovation of its old industrial base.
Kim also met Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
Wen told Kim that China will, as always, support North Korea in developing its economy and is willing to introduce to the DPRK the experience of China's reform, opening-up and construction.
Kim's private, armored train crossed the border back into North Korea yesterday morning after leaving Beijing on Thursday following talks with President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders that touched on the six-nation talks aimed at ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains unchanged in sticking to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, Kim told Hu in Beijing.
The six parties -- China, the United States, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- should demonstrate sincerity and make positive efforts for pushing forward the talks, said the two leaders.
Kim said his country will work with China to create favorable conditions for restarting the six-party talks, which started in 2003 but hit a snag in April 2009 when Pyongyang pulled out of the talks in protest of the United Nations condemnation of its missile tests.
Fifth visit
This was Kim's fifth visit to China since the new century with the latest in 2006. Besides Beijing, Kim also toured economic development zones, bonded ports and hi-tech companies in the cities of Dalian, Tianjin and Shenyang.
During each of his visits to China, Kim said, he could always witness the new achievements made by the Chinese people. China's achievements are a great encouragement to the people of the DPRK, he said.
With the principle of mutual benefit and win-win, North Korea welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in the country and will actively lift the quality of bilateral cooperation, Kim said.
In Dalian, a booming coastal city in northeast China, Kim told officials in his delegation to study the experience of China's renovation of its old industrial base.
Kim also met Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
Wen told Kim that China will, as always, support North Korea in developing its economy and is willing to introduce to the DPRK the experience of China's reform, opening-up and construction.
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