i'm still pesistimistic if our ppl actually visit this blog.
be prepared. WW3?
March 19, 2009
Wen talks nuke with N.Korea 10 min-->
BEIJING - THE prime ministers of China and North Korea on Wednesday discussed the nuclear situation on the Korean peninsula as they met amid rising tensions over Pyongyang's atomic and missile programmes.
'China is willing to actively push forward the six-party talks and continue to play a constructive role in realising the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,' China's Wen Jiabao told Kim Yong-Il in talks broadcast on state television.
Mr Kim's visit comes amid mounting international concern over North Korea's planned launch early next month of a communications satellite, which the United States and South Korea have said is more likely a test of a ballistic missile.
Adding to tensions, six-nation talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programmes have stalled since December.
China has expressed concern over the situation on the Korean peninsula.
'At present, the situation on the Korean peninsula is rather complicated with an increasing number of uncertain factors,' foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters on Tuesday.'We express concern over this.'
In Washington, also on Tuesday, a US general warned that the United States would have no trouble shooting down the North Korean rocket if it considered it to be a ballistic missile fired at America.
'If we felt the North Koreans were going to shoot a ballistic missile at us today, I am comfortable that we would have an effective system that would meet that need,' Air Force General Victor 'Gene' Renuart told a congressional hearing.
Washington says Pyongyang is testing a missile that could, in theory, reach Alaska. North Korea has resisted pressure from the United States and its allies to call off the rocket launch and warned that any attempt to shoot it down would be regarded as an act of war.
China, meanwhile, has called on all sides to exercise restraint and return to the six-nation nuclear negotiations, which also group the United States, North and South Korea, Japan and Russia. -- AFP