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Thu, 08/25/2011 - 10:50
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N. Korean leader likely to use Chinese route in returning home from Russia
BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- The engine of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's train was spotted in a Chinese border station with Russia on Thursday, a sign that Kim could return home via a Chinese route.
The engine was seen at Manzhouli Railway Station in Inner Mongolia earlier in the day before heading to the border area in what could be a move to pull Kim's armored train toward China.
It takes a couple of hours to adjust different rail tracks between China and Russia.
Kim's armored train is expected to cross the railway before entering China in an apparent move to shorten his train ride back to his country.
It was not immediately clear whether Kim could meet with Chinese officials as his train rolls across China.
Kim held summit talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a military base on the outskirts of the eastern Siberian city of Ulan-Ude on Wednesday.
"At the talks they shared the view that the six-party talks should be resumed without any preconditions at an early date," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday in a dispatch from Pyongyang.
The dispatch, however, did not mention Kim's reported promise to impose a moratorium on tests and production of nuclear weapons if the disarmament-for-aid talks are resumed.
The North quit the talks in 2009, though it has since repeatedly expressed its desire to return to the talks that involve South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Wi Sung-lac, arrived in Beijing on Thursday for one-day talks with his Chinese counterpart to discuss how to move the nuclear talks forward.
Pyongyang has a track record of alternately using provocations and dialogue with South Korea, the United States and other regional powers to try to wrest concessions before backtracking on agreements and quitting the nuclear talks.
entropy@yna.co.kr
The engine was seen at Manzhouli Railway Station in Inner Mongolia earlier in the day before heading to the border area in what could be a move to pull Kim's armored train toward China.
It takes a couple of hours to adjust different rail tracks between China and Russia.
Kim's armored train is expected to cross the railway before entering China in an apparent move to shorten his train ride back to his country.
It was not immediately clear whether Kim could meet with Chinese officials as his train rolls across China.
Kim held summit talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a military base on the outskirts of the eastern Siberian city of Ulan-Ude on Wednesday.
"At the talks they shared the view that the six-party talks should be resumed without any preconditions at an early date," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday in a dispatch from Pyongyang.
The dispatch, however, did not mention Kim's reported promise to impose a moratorium on tests and production of nuclear weapons if the disarmament-for-aid talks are resumed.
The North quit the talks in 2009, though it has since repeatedly expressed its desire to return to the talks that involve South Korea, the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Wi Sung-lac, arrived in Beijing on Thursday for one-day talks with his Chinese counterpart to discuss how to move the nuclear talks forward.
Pyongyang has a track record of alternately using provocations and dialogue with South Korea, the United States and other regional powers to try to wrest concessions before backtracking on agreements and quitting the nuclear talks.
entropy@yna.co.kr
