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To: tejek who wrote (220450)	2/23/2005 3:01:07 AM
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Chinese Official Meets With N. Korean Chinese Communist Party Official Meets With North Korean Leader Over Nuclear Weapons Program By ALEXA OLESEN Associated Press Writer The Associated Press BEIJING Feb 19, 2005 — A top Chinese Communist Party official met with North Korea's no. 2 leader Saturday seeking a change of heart after Pyongyang reportedly rejected any further negotiations over its nuclear weapons program. The head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department, Wang Jiarui, who flew to Pyongyang on Saturday, had a "friendly conversation" with Kim Yong Nam, the North's official news agency, KCNA, said. The report did not futher elaborate on the session. During his stay, Wang plans to meet the country's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, to give a "strong recommendation" that Pyongyang return to the six-party disarmament talks, South Korea's Munhwa Ilbo newspaper reported, quoting diplomatic sources in Beijing. Xinhua, quoting an unidentified North Korean foreign ministry official, said earlier Saturday that the North no longer wanted to negotiate directly with the United States to ease the ongoing standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program. The official reiterated the communist regime's decision on Feb. 10 to indefinitely suspend its participation in six-party nuclear disarmament talks with the United States and four other countries, Xinhua said. The United States and other countries are seeking to use what leverage they have including the good will between North Korea and its last major ally, China to persuade Pyongyang to resume multilateral negotiations. North Korea had demanded one-on-one meetings with the United States after saying it would withdraw from the six-party talks a move Washington rejected. Reviving the stalled talks has taken on greater urgency since North Korea's explosive but unconfirmed declaration earlier this month that it has become a nuclear power. The North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said his country was withdrawing its offer of direct talks with Washington because of what the official described as the United States' persistent attempts to topple the communist regime, Xinhua said. "The DPRK has no justification to take bilateral talks … on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula with the United States now," Xinhua quoted the spokesman as saying. DPRK is the acronym for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. abcnews.go.com