| North Korea's No. 2 leader has told China that his country still regards six-nation talks on the dispute over its nuclear program as the best way to reach a solution, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday. Chinese leaders were lobbying Kim Yong Nam, who arrived in Beijing Monday on an official visit, to restart stalled talks on U.S. demands for his country to give up its nuclear ambitions. Participants missed a September deadline for a new round because North Korea refused to take part. On Monday, Kim met his Chinese counterpart, Wu Bangguo, who told him that a settlement was the "common wish" of the international community. Kim responded "in the strictest terms that the position of (North Korea) concerning the six-party talks is unchanged — that is, to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula through the six-party talks," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said at a regular briefing. |