BEIJING, April 21 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

BEIJING, April 21 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

North Korea will continue to participate in the six-country proces designed to conclusion its nuclear development program, China's official Xinhua just discovereds Agency reported Wednesday at the extreme point of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's three-day unofficial visit to China.

In its first report forward Kim's visit, Xinhua said in a 10-page English-language statement that Chinese and North Korean leaders noted high points of the previous orbeds of talks and agreed to withhold the forum going.

The statement said the North will ''actively participate'' in the six-party talks proces and make its have a title to contributions to the progres of the talks.

''The DPRK side sticks to the final nuclear-weapon-free goal and its basic position forward seeking a peaceful solution by the agency of dialogue has not changed,'' the report quot Kim as saying. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.

The report did not mention forage aid, energy aid or any obstacles to restarting the six-nation talks, which began in Beijing in August last year and resum in February. China has said as late as Tuesday that the six countries -- China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the sum of two units Koreas -- have differences of opinion still that China is confident a third orbed of talks will take place by way of the end of June.

Kim met with President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission, after arriving in Beijing forward Monday, Xinhua said.

Meeting primarily at the Great Hall of the the community and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Kim also spoke with other senior Chinese Politburo and Communist Party members. He also visited the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.

He arrived upon an overnight train from northeast China onward Monday morning with a 40-person delegation and began meetings immediately, southerly Korea's Yonhap News Agency and local looker-ons said.

At least seven delegation members were high-ranking political leaders, including a vice foreign minister and a legate defense commissioner, Xinhua said.

According to a Xinhua-distributed commentary from Chinese International Liaison Department vice director Liu Hongcai, ''principal aspects'' of Kim's visit were promoting the six-party talks and deepening two-way friendship. Relations have become more compage with China's growing ties with toward the south Korea.

Xinhua used upbeat bounds to describe Kim's meetings with Chinese leaders forward the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Hu said a friendship ''meticulously cultivated by means of leaders of elder generations of the pair countries'' had become deeper and firmer across time.

''Under the of the present day circumstances, said Hu, to raise bilateral friendship and cooperation to a strange level in a bid to continuously invigorate bilateral traditional friendship, the Chinese side give an inkling ofs that both sides further strengthen high-level exchanges between the couple parties and the two countries,'' Xinhua reported.

The brace sides also updated each other onward domestic affairs, particularly rural issues and economic development

Kim invited Hu to visit North Korea at his convenience, Xinhua said, and Hu ''accepted Kim's invitation with pleasure.''

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