North Korea's top nuclear envoy reasserted that Pyongyang wants to resolve it nuclear issue through dialogue, China's foreign ministry said Wednesday after meetings with the envoy.
Kim Kye-gwan, the North's first vice foreign minister, said Pyongyang wants a peaceful resolution to the nuclear row through participation in various talks, including the six-nation forum, according to the ministry's website.
Kim was in Beijing from Tuesday, meeting with senior Chinese officials for "strategic dialogue" that watchers say likely focused on the North's nuclear weapons program and bilateral ties.
The foreign ministry said the envoy emphasized that denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula was the wish of the North's late leaders -- the grandfather and father of the country's current leader Kim Jong-un.
Zhang Yesui, China's vice foreign minister, said Korea's denuclearization, peaceful and stabilized Korean Peninsula are all in the interest of related parties and that China wants early resumption of the six-party talks, the ministry said.