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Kim woos China's Wen on rare visit
Sun Oct 4, 2009 2:20am EDT
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BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il made a rare appearance at Pyongyang's airport on Sunday to personally greet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the start of a top-level visit likely to test the North's stance on nuclear disarmament.
Wen was "greeted at the airport" by Kim -- the secretive leader who dominates all big decisions in his country -- said a brief report from China's Xinhua news agency.
The report had no details of any discussions between the two. But Kim's unusual outing was itself a show of how seriously North Korea is about shoring up ties with Beijing, which gives its poor neighbor crucial economic help and diplomatic backing.
Kim is widely believed to have suffered a bout of serious illness last year.
Premier Wen's visit coincides with the 60th anniversary of formal ties between the two communist neighbors, and his three days there are likely to feature gestures of friendship, not the hard-nosed negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons that preoccupy other regional powers.
But analysts said China, the closest North Korea has to an ally, would not send such a senior visitor unless it had some assurance from Pyongyang that could ease tensions over its nuclear weapons activities, following a second nuclear test and its claims to have made progress in enriching uranium.
"This visit will be mostly focused on bolstering bilateral relations and the 60th anniversary, but the nuclear issue is sure to come up," said Zhu Feng, a professor of international security at Peking University.
"The key question will be whether North Korea goes beyond its recent statements and directly expresses willingness to return to the six-party (nuclear disarmament) talks," said Zhu. "That would be China's goal for this visit,."
Chinese officials have given few details about the itinerary of Wen's three-day visit.
But the large retinue of senior Chinese officials traveling with Wen gave some idea of his broad economic and political agenda. According to Xinhua, they included Commerce Minister Chen Deming, National Development and Reform Commission chief Zhang Ping, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, and a senior military officer, Liu Zhenqi.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday the two sides will sign agreements on trade, education and tourism during Wen's visit.
The six-party talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States ground to a halt about a year ago, with Pyongyang saying it will boycott the sessions aimed at curtailing its nuclear weapons ambitions in return for aid.
China, hosting the talks, has said they remain the most effective forum for dealing with the nuclear dispute.
North Korea in recent months has reached out to the international community after being hit with U.N. sanctions for the nuclear test in May.
Last month, Kim Jong-il told a visiting envoy from China that he would work to end his state's nuclear arms program through multilateral talks. Continued...
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