Leaders support nuclear weapon free peninsula
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2004-04-21 15:45

China and North Korea agreed to continue jointly pushing forward the six-party talks process on Wednesday, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il paid an unofficial visit to Beijing at the invitation of the Chinese President Hu Jintao from April 19 to April 21. [file photo]

The agreement was reached during the talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.

Kim said that the North Korean side will continue to take a patient and flexible manner and actively participate in the six-party talks process, and make its own contributions to the progress of the talks.

During his talks with President Hu Jintao, Kim said North Korea sticks to the final nuclear-weapon-free goal and its basic position on seeking for a peaceful solution through dialogue has not changed.

The two leaders exchanged in-depth views on peacefully solving the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula. Both sides fully reaffirmed the positive results of the Beijing tri-party talks and the two rounds of six-party talks, and agreed to continue the position on solving the issue through dialogue and in a peaceful way, and jointly pushing forward the six-party talks process, so as to make contributions to the final, peaceful solution.

Hu stressed that China, as a neighbor of the Korean Peninsula, has been committed to safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula, supports a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula, supports a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue through dialogue, and upholds that North Korea's rational concerns should be addressed, according to Xinhua report.

Kim highly valued the Chinese government's positive stance on and important contributions to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Kim paid an unofficial visit to China from April 19 to 21 at the invitation of Hu, announced a spokesman with the International Department of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing on Wednesday.

Kim's visit followed an official visit by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney from April 13-15. During the visit, Cheney asked Chinese government to continue to push for the next round of six-party talks.

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