It is the requirement of a new period and new situation
The two governments agreed that their interests herve leger sale converge in the “adherence to the goal of denuclearization on the whole Korean peninsula, peaceful settlement of the issue through dialogue, including the resumption of the six-party talks and the elimination of obstructive elements,” KCNA said.
Six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear-program, hosted by China and also involving Japan, South Korea, Russia and the U.S., haven’t convened since December 2008. The country won’t give up the program without some kind of security guarantee from the U.S., former President Jimmy Carter said during a visit to North Korea last month.
Kim’s third trip to his main ally and benefactor in the past year may have been aimed at extracting more aid and trade to shore up an economy beset by international sanctions aimed at halting the regime’s nuclear program, crop failures and livestock disease. China’s gross domestic product jumped 14-fold in the three decades since it began herve leger 2011 experiments with market- oriented reforms, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
‘New Situation’
“It is the requirement of a new period and new situation to strengthen the unity between the two parties and countries,” KCNA cited Hu as saying. Chinese officials took Kim on tours of agricultural, industrial and technology centers, according to the report.
North Korea’s trade with China jumped 30 percent last year even after the United Nations stepped up sanctions following its second nuclear test in May 2009, according to China’s Commerce Ministry.
Kim, 69, made his trip as a U.S. delegation visited North Korea to survey the country’s food shortages. Kim last visited China in August, a month before his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, was appointed to the second-highest military post within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. The August trip was the elder Kim’s second to China in 2010.
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