The border control practice between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is effective, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

"China and the DPRK have a panoply of effective border control practices," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told the regular briefing on Tuesday.

Her comments came in response to a question about the reported flight into China of 20 DPRK border guards.

Jiang said the two countries always properly resolve border cases.

China and the DPRK are committed to developing neighborly relations, opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, Jiang said.

China and the DPRK have normal trade relations, she said. Trade between the two countries hit 1.53 billion U.S. dollars in the January-November period of 2006, up 5.5 percent over the same period of the previous year.

Source: Xinhua