{"id":10101,"date":"2011-08-24T23:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-24T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:08:41","slug":"North-Korean-leader-Kim-Jong-il-in-China-after-Russia-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10101","title":{"rendered":"North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in China after Russia talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in China today, official media from both countries said, in unusually open reporting of Kim’s latest visit to his cash-strapped country’s chief ally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

China’s state Xinhua news agency described it as a “stopover” but the foreign ministry in Beijing refused to reveal if Kim would meet Chinese officials or if he was only transiting on his return home from Russia.<\/p>\n

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) confirmed Kim “will pay a visit to the northeast area of the People’s Republic of China on August 25 on his way home”, but offered no more details.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Previous visits by Kim to China have been shrouded in secrecy and only officially confirmed by either side after his departure.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, quoting sources, said that the train carrying the North Korean leader was spotted at a Chinese railway station on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It said that the decision to cross Chinese territory may be a move to shorten Kim’s train ride back to his impoverished country, which relies heavily on its neighbor and communist ally for survival.<\/p>\n

Kim – known for shunning air travel and taking extraordinary security measures – crossed into China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province by train at the border city of Manzhouli, Xinhua said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is Kim’s first visit to the country since May, when he told Chinese President Hu Jintao that he remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and hoped six-party nuclear disarmament talks would resume.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Kim held his first summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a Siberian garrison near the traditionally Buddhist city of Ulan-Ude, and again voiced hopes for the resumption of the six-way talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The summit ended with a Kremlin announcement that North Korea was ready to resume dialogue without preconditions and abandon atomic enrichment and testing once the six-party talks restarted.<\/p>\n

But both the United States and South Korea – who along with China and Japan make up the other six countries involved in the process – dismissed the proposal as nothing new.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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