China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to continue jointly pushing forward the six-party talks process.

The agreement was reached during the talks between Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and president of China, and Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK.

Kim paid an unofficial visit to China from April 19 to 21 at the invitation of Hu, announced a spokesman with the InternationalDepartment of the CPC Central Committee here Wednesday.

During the talks, leaders of the two parties and the two countries exchanged in-depth views on peacefully solving the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula. Both sides fully reaffirmedthe positive results of the Beijing tri-party talks and the two rounds of six-party talks, and agreed to continue the position on solving the issue through dialogue and in a peaceful way, and jointly pushing forward the six-party talks process, so as to makecontributions to the final, peaceful solution.

Hu stressed that China, as a neighbor of the Korean Peninsula, has been committed to safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula, supports a nuclear-weapon-free Korean Peninsula, supports a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue through dialogue,and upholds that the DPRK's rational concerns should be addressed.

Kim highly valued the Chinese party's and government's positivestance on and important contributions to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. He said the DPRK side sticks to the final nuclear-weapon-free goal and its basic position on seeking for a peaceful solution through dialogue has not changed.

The DPRK side will continue to take a patient and flexible manner and actively participate in the six-party talks process, and make its own contributions to the progress of the talks.

Source: Xinhua