【英语中国】中国证实胡锦涛会见金正日

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il met Chinese President Hu Jintao during his five-day visit to northeast China, the Chinese government confirmed Monday night as Mr. Kim left the country, in a surprise get-together that underscored their solidarity as they cope with pressure from the U.S. and other countries to act more responsibly.

The announcement was the climax of what appeared to be a coordinated public-relations push by China on Monday, beginning with stories in several media outlets praising the China-North Korea relationship while also saying Beijing shouldn't be held responsible for Pyongyang's provocative actions.

The meeting happened Friday, though China, as it has done with Mr. Kim's previous visits, waited until he left the country to say he had been there.

In the initial reports confirming the meeting between Messrs. Kim and Hu, China's state media said that Mr. Kim wanted a resumption of the six-nation talks aimed at striking a bargain for denuclearizing North Korea. They also hinted that Mr. Kim was interested in the economic overhauls that opened China to the world, though they didn't say he endorsed or would follow them.

Mr. Kim for years has resisted requests of Chinese leaders to open up North Korea's economy. Late last year, his regime tried to clamp down on market activities but halted the effort when the government couldn't feed people.

Mr. Hu said on state TV that China should expand its economic cooperation with North Korea. Since Mr. Kim's entourage was spotted in China on Thursday, analysts have speculated that one reason he made the trip was to seek more money and assistance for the impoverished North.

Analysts also speculated that Mr. Kim brought his expected heir-apparent, son Kim Jong Eun, to meet Chinese officials ahead of a political meeting in Pyongyang next week that may be the son's public debut in North Korea. The Chinese news reports about the visit did not mention the son, however.

'I think there are other two issues Kim wants to talk about with China,' said Jin Hanyi, head of Northeastern Asian Research Institute at Yanbian University in Jilin. 'North Korea recently had a bad flood and, with international sanctions against it and the failure of monetary reform, Kim wants to discuss how to deal with these awful messes,' Mr. Hanyi said. 'Second, North Korea will hold a Workers' Party meeting next month and he wants support from China for new policies.'

Mr. Kim's entourage twice during the trip stopped in places associated with his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, moves that are likely to be portrayed in North Korea as highlighting the importance of the Kim family as another potential succession looms.

For outside diplomats, the greatest significance of the trip is the symbolism of Messrs. Kim and Hu going to great lengths to meet each other in the aftermath of criticism both countries took following the sinking of a South Korean earlier this year, an incident that South Korea, the U.S. and others blame on a North Korean attack.

China has refused to blame North Korea publicly for the sinking, which killed 46 South Korean sailors, or to examine the results of the South Korea-led investigation.

Instead, North Korea and China have, since late May when the investigation first produced the accusation against North Korea, called for the resumption of the six-party denuclearization talks. The talks began in 2003, producing two agreements that North Korea dragged out and ultimately failed to keep. Pyongyang formally walked away from them last year.

Japan, South Korea and the U.S. have said North Korea damaged the potential for the talks with its attack on the South Korean ship.

The message to restart the talks was also given last week by a different North Korean official to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter when Mr. Carter went to Pyongyang to retrieve an American teacher who entered North Korea illegally in January. Mr. Kim skipped the opportunity to meet Mr. Carter to go to China instead.Mr. Kim doesn't like to fly and travels by train that is easily monitored by satellite by foreign governments. His entourage is then tracked on the ground by reporters who follow the highly visible security cordons that go up along his route.

On Monday, South Korean and Japanese news agencies reported the action as Mr. Kim took his specially outfitted train from Harbin, the capital of China's most northeastern province Heilongjiang, to a smaller city called Mudanjiang and then down to the border crossing at Tumen.

Mr. Kim called himself a 'witness' to the success of China's 'reform and opening up,' Chinese television reported, but it was unclear whether that meant the North would follow that model. Last year, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in a visit to Pyongyang, proposed development projects valued at several billion dollars to North Korea, but none have gotten off the ground.

Early Monday, Chinese state media rang with praise for North Korea but also tried to draw a line in the two countries' relationship.

The state-run Xinhua news agency published a commentary talking about Chinese men who sacrificed their lives for North Korea, during the Korean War of the 1950s and afterward. Its latest example was the tale of a Chinese man who drowned this month after rescuing three North Korean girls adrift at sea.

The man's 'sacrifice led us again to recollect the long history of friendship between the two peoples,' Xinhua wrote.

Another nationalist newspaper, Global Times, wrote an editorial that called the China-North Korea relationship both 'special' and 'normal.'

'The biggest negative impact the China-North Korea relationship has on China is that the U.S, Japan and South Korea all request that China be responsible for North Korea's 'irrational behaviors,'' the newspaper wrote. 'However, China has no ability to shoulder such responsibility.'

一晚间朝鲜独裁统治者金正日(Kim Jong Il)离开中国时，中国政府证实金正日在对中国东北为期五天的访问中会晤了中国国家主席胡锦涛，这次意外的会见表明中朝两国正团结一致以应对美国和其它国家就其行动须更负责任的施压。

宣布这次会晤是周一中国一场貌似协调一致的公关造势行动的高潮，几大媒体都刊载了赞扬中朝关系的新闻。新闻还说，北京不应为平壤的激进行为负责。

会晤是在周五进行的，不过中国一直等到金正日离开才表示他到访过中国，之前几次金正日访问中国也是这样做的。

在最初几篇证实金正日与胡锦涛会晤的报道中，中国官方媒体说，金正日希望恢复旨在实现半岛无核化的六方会谈。这些报道还暗示说，金正日对打开中国国门的经济改革产生兴趣，不过并未透露他赞成与否或是否将如法炮制。

金正日多年来一直拒绝中国领导人希望朝鲜放开经济的要求。去年晚些时候，朝鲜曾试图取缔市场活动，但因人们吃不饱饭而暂停了这一取缔行动。

胡锦涛在官方中央电视台上表示，中国应扩大与朝鲜的经贸合作。自从周四发现金正日一行现身中国，分析人士就推测他此行的一大动机，是为一贫如洗的朝鲜寻找更多的资金和援助。

分析人士还猜测，金正日此行带了他的儿子──准继承人金正云，提前同中国官员见面，而下周召开的平壤政治会议上可能是金正云在朝鲜的首次公开亮相。不过中国有关金正日访华的新闻报道并未提及金正云。

吉林延边大学东北亚研究院院长金韩一(音)说，他认为还有另外两件事金正日希望和中国商讨。他表示，朝鲜最近遭遇了一场特大洪水，再加之国际制裁和货币改革失败，金正日想来讨论如何处理这些头疼的麻烦事，另外就是朝鲜下个月将举行朝鲜劳动党大会，他希望寻求中国对新政策的支持。

金正日一行在此次访华过程中两次经停与其父朝鲜缔造者金日成有关的地方，考虑到新一轮领导人接班的问题，这些举动有可能被朝鲜描绘为强调金氏家族的重要性。

对外界的外交人士来说，继今年早些时候韩国“天安”号沉没事件发生后，中朝两国都受到了指责，在这样的大背景下，金正日此次访华最大的意义在于其凸显了金正日和胡锦涛努力举行会晤的象征性作用。韩国、美国和其它国家指责朝鲜袭击了“天安”号。

中国拒绝在沉船事件上公开指责朝鲜，也不愿查看由韩国牵头的调查的结果。在“天安”号事件中，有46名韩国船员丧生。

相反，自5月底调查首次将指责的矛头对准朝鲜以来，朝鲜和中国一直呼吁重启旨在实现朝鲜无核化的六方会谈。六方会谈始于2003年，达成了两份协议，朝鲜对协议勉强同意但最终没有遵守。平壤方面去年正式退出了协议。

日本、韩国和美国说，朝鲜对韩国舰艇的袭击破坏了重启六方会谈的可能。

上周美国前总统卡特(Jimmy Carter)赴朝鲜营救一名1月份非法进入朝鲜的美国教师时，另外一位朝鲜官员也向他表达了重启六方会谈的意思。金正日放弃了与卡特会面的机会，而是赴中国访问。金正日不喜欢乘飞机出行，他通常乘坐火车，这很容易被外国政府的卫星监测到。然后，他的随行人员会被地面上的记者追踪，记者们会追踪出行沿线醒目的安全警戒队。

周一，金正日乘专列从黑龙江省会哈尔滨到小城牡丹江，之后到了边境城市图们市，韩国和日本的通讯社对此进行了报导。

中国电视台报导说，金正日自称是中国改革开放成功的“见证者”，不过不清楚这是否意味着朝鲜将效仿中国的模式。去年，中国国务院总理温家宝在访问平壤期间，向朝鲜提出了价值数十亿美元的开发项目，不过项目还都没有启动。

周一早间，中国国有媒体赞扬了朝鲜，不过也试图在中朝关系上划清界限。

新华社发表评论员文章，谈到了50年代朝鲜战争期间及后来为朝鲜牺牲生命的中国人。最近的一个例子是，本月一个中国人在海上救了三个朝鲜女孩之后溺水而亡。

新华社报导说，此人的的牺牲让我们再次回想起两国人民之间的深厚友谊。

《环球时报》发表社论文章，称中朝关系既特别又正常。

报导写道，中朝关系对中国最大的负面影响是美国、日本和韩国都要求中国对朝鲜不理性的行为负责，而中国没有能力担负这样的责任。