BBC:China urges N Korea to talk again

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China urges N Korea to talk again
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The Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged North Korea to return to the negotiating table over its controversial nuclear programme.

Mr Hu told North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il to co-operate with efforts to resume stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear programmes.

Chinese state media said Mr Hu told Mr Kim China was willing to work with other parties to restart the talks.

Tensions surrounding North Korea's nuclear capabilities are high.

North Korea is threatening to launch a "satellite", which observers say is probably a missile, in the next few weeks.

The six-party talks - involving the US, Japan, China, Russia and North and South Korea - aim to offer aid to Pyongyang in return for the North moving to end its nuclear programme.

'Resolve differences'

"We hope that relevant parties can consider the whole situation, appropriately resolve their differences and promote the progress of the six-party talks," Xinhua news agency quoted Mr Hu as saying.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang would not elaborate on what steps China was planning to take, but said Beijing hoped the next round of talks can be held as soon as possible. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told Mr Kim a day earlier that China wants to "actively push forward" the deadlocked negotiations involving the two Koreas, China, the US, Russia and Japan.

China's chief delegate to the nuclear talks, Wu Dawei, visited North Korea without fanfare in February seeking a breakthrough, South Korean and Japanese media reported at the time.

Beijing has not confirmed the trip. China has been hosting the talks which had been making progress until North Korea abruptly stopped disabling its nuclear program last August.

Talks in December failed to resolve a dispute with the US over how to verify the North's full range of past nuclear activities.

Missile worries

On Wednesday, North Korea reasserted its right to launch a satellite into space, saying Russia, Iran, India and many other countries have been pursuing peaceful space programs, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

South Korea and the US say Pyongyang may be preparing to test-fire a long-range missile and have warned it against the launch planned for April.

The North insists it is preparing to send up a communications satellite.

North Korea is banned from firing either device under a UN Security Council resolution prohibiting it from ballistic activity.

Pyongyang has said the launch will take place between 4-8 April, and that any attempt to shoot it down would result in war.

North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il - who is not related to leader Kim Jong-il - arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a five-day trip.

Pyongyang recently put its military on full combat alert, in what it said was retaliation for the recent annual military exercise by US and South Korean forces.

In January, the North scrapped a series of peace agreements with the South over Seoul's decision to link bilateral aid to progress on denuclearisation.

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