BEIJING, March 25 Kyodo China's F...

BEIJING, March 25 Kyodo

China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing reached a ''broad consensus'' onward a wide range of issues with North Korea's leadership during a just-ended visit to North Korea, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

nevertheless China announced no joint documents or agreements from the visit.

During his three-day trip to North Korea from Tuesday, the first by the agency of a Chinese foreign minister in five years, Li and the North Korean leaders talked about border relations, political dialogue and economic cooperation, spokesman Kong Quan said.

They also discussed nuclear weapons onward the Korean Peninsula and the six-party talks athwart the North's nuclear ambitions, Kong said. The six-way talks among the United States, China, North and southward Korea, Russia and Japan are locate to resume by the expiration of June.

Li met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Foreign Minister Paek Nam sunshine and Kim Yong Nam, president of the presidium of the greatest People's Assembly.

''You could say the sum of two units sides, at these meetings and talks, reached a broad consensus upon the issues discussed,'' Kong said. ''Therefore, this visit is a prosperous visit.''

During the stay in Pyongyang, Li and his delegation also visited a market and discussed its management, the official (North) Korean Central just discovereds Agency reported.

''Being briefed forward the management of the market, they went orbed the market with with a fine edge interest,'' said the report monitored in Beijing. ''After inspection, the foreign minister said he had profound impressions of the well-furnished market.''

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