Chinese premier arrives in North Korea amid signs nuclear talks may pick up againOctober 4th, 2009 China premier in N. Korea; nuclear talks possiblePYONGYANG, North Korea — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived Sunday in North Korea on a highly anticipated state visit amid signs the North may be willing to restart dialogue over its nuclear programs following months of resistance.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in North Korea on highly anticipated state visitOctober 3rd, 2009 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in North KoreaPYONGYANG, North Korea — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived Sunday in North Korea on a highly anticipated state visit amid signs the North may be willing to restart dialogue over its nuclear programs following months of resistance. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il greeted Wen at Pyongyang's airport, another indication that Kim remains firmly in charge despite recent reports of failing health.
NKorea's state media says Chinese Premier Wen to visit NKorea next weekSeptember 30th, 2009 NKorean media says Chinese premier to visit NKoreaSEOUL, South Korea — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will travel to North Korea next week, Pyongyang's state media said Monday, amid a flurry of international efforts to convince the reclusive regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks. The Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch that Wen will pay an "official goodwill" visit Oct.
Chinese Premier to persuade N. Korea to resume six-nation talksSeptember 29th, 2009 BEIJING - Keen to bring Pyongyang back to the multilateral negotiation table, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) early next week. Pyongyang withdrew from six-nation talks on decommissioning nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula in April after launching a missile that followed UN sanctions.
South Korea says reports of North Korea preparing for 3rd nuke test 'absurd'September 14th, 2009 SEOUL - South Korea has rejected reports claiming that North Korea is preparing for a third nuclear. "(We) haven't heard of anything like that, which thus cannot be confirmed," Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted a senior Chinese Government official, as saying.
China disputes US journalists' account of North Korea captureSeptember 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese government Thursday disputed two US journalists' account of their capture at the border between China and North Korea, saying it believed that the two women were not seized on Chinese territory. "According to the understanding of relevant departments, they did not find the situation as you described it," foreign ministry spokesman Jiang Yu told reporters when asked about the journalists' claim that North Korean border guards chased them across the border before arresting them.
China seizes North Korea-bound missile component: ReportJuly 29th, 2009 SEOUL - China seized 70 kg of a strategic missile-making metal bound for North Korea, South Korean media reported Wednesday, quoting a local Chinese newspaper. The seizure took place Friday at Dandong on the Chinese border with North Korea.
Japan seeks China's support for UN resolution on North KoreaJune 8th, 2009 TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso asked visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan for Beijing's support to adopt a UN Security Council resolution against North Korea's nuclear test last month, media reports said Monday. Aso was quoted as telling Wang that Japan expected China to play a role in denuclearising Pyongyang, government officials said.
US diplomat meets Chinese foreign minister during North Korea sanctions driveJune 5th, 2009 US-China diplomats meet amid NKorea sanctions tripBEIJING — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with top Chinese diplomats Friday on a trip seeking support for tough new sanctions on North Korea, after he reportedly told South Korea the U.S.
China's North Korean tightrope walkMay 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - China, which has been leading the effort o restart six party talks with Russia, US, Japan, South and North Korea - is walking a tightrope after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said China is "resolutely opposed" to the North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Chinese anger may help in imposing UN sanctions on North KoreaMay 28th, 2009 BEIJING - China's leaders have shown sufficient anger over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests this week, and now, U.S. officials hope Beijing's sharp rhetoric will translate into support in the U.N.
North Korea threatens military strike against South KoreaMay 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea Wednesday warned it will respond militarily to South Korea joining a US-led initiative to intercept ships carrying illicit weapons, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said.
North Korea to try US journalistsMay 14th, 2009 PYONGYANG - A North Korean court will try two detained US journalists June 4, the state-run news agency reported Thursday. Euna Lee, a Korean-American, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, were detained March 17 near the Tumen River, which marks the border with China.
Kim Jong Il meets Chinese officialJanuary 22nd, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who is reported to be ill, met a senior Chinese official here Friday, officials said. Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Thursday met Kim Yong II, the North Korean prime minister.
'North Korea will not quit nuclear programme under US threat'January 16th, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons programme under US threat, a foreign ministry spokesman said here Saturday. 'If there is something to be desired by us (North Korea), it is not normalisation of relations with the US, but to boost nuclear deterrent in every possible way,' the official KCNA news agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
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