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North Korean premier lauds China as regional anchor
Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:03am EDT
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BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il praised China as a bulwark of regional stability before arriving for a visit on Tuesday that underscores the two nations' friendship while neighbors decry Pyongyang's missile plans.
Kim is not related to the North's supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, and wields little military power, but his five-day trip signals China's desire to woo North Korea as other powers warn against its plan to fire a rocket between April 4 to 8.
The reclusive North has said the rocket will carry a satellite. Tokyo, Seoul and Washington have said it will be a long-range ballistic missile test in all but name.
In an interview with China's official People's Daily, Kim said Beijing was a diplomatic anchor for his country in international turbulence.
"North Korea feels satisfied with the vigorously friendly relations with China during the current complex and changeable international trends," he wrote in response to questions from the paper before leaving for China.
The bond, he wrote, would "make a real contribution to ensuring the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula, the northeast Asia region and the world."
Other capitals have said a rocket launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in 2006 after an earlier missile test by the North.
China has so far avoided even muted threats, instead urging governments in stalled six-party talks aimed at the nuclear disarmament of North Korea to do more.
"We believe protecting the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula is in the interests of all concerned parties," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said last week, when asked about Pyongyang's planned rocket launch.
Such mild language is likely to dominate at least public statements during Kim's visit, which began on Tuesday and will probably focus on trade, industry and goodwill rather than missiles and nuclear disarmament.
"YEAR OF FRIENDSHIP"
The two countries have called 2009 their "year of friendship." China may not welcome a missile launch, but it does not want to discard North Korea as a partner.
"China hasn't revealed what it will do if there is a (rocket) launch, but for now it doesn't see any reason for departing from its customary language," said Zhang Liangui, an expert on North Korea at the Central Party School, an institute in Beijing.
"China is especially careful in handling North Korea."
Beijing hosts the six-party talks, which also bring together North and South Korea, the United States, Japan and Russia. Continued...
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