TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo China has pr...

TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo

China has promised to put forward $50 million in grant aid to North Korea in get back for its attendance at six-party talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear arms program, a Japanese newspaper reported Saturday.

The Asahi Shimbun said in its Saturday evening edition that top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo made the deposit during talks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il and Premier Pak Pong Ju last October in Pyongyang.

Wu head of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congres told them China was ready to dilate the assistance after a other round of the multilateral talks, the Asahi said.

It quot sources familiar with relations between the United States and North Korea as saying that China would lengthen out the money for the official aim of building a glassworks, however how to use it would be for the most part left to Pyongyang's discretion.

The Asahi said China would provide the aid in yuan, meaning that the currency could be used only in the Chinese market.

During the talks, Beijing and Pyongyang agreed in principle to begin again the multilateral negotiations.

China innkeepered an inconclusive, first round of six-party talks forward the nuclear issue last August with the U the sum of two units Koreas, Japan and Russia.

if it be not that the six nations have been unable to clutch another round of negotiations because of differences across a proposed joint statement.

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