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By P. S. Suryanarayana
Shortly after his arrival in Pyongyang, Mr. Wu called on North Korea's formal head of state, Kim Yong-nam. While regional diplomats and analysts expect Mr. Wu's visit to help "jump start'' the stalled process of "Beijing talks'', China has portrayed the tour as "an official goodwill visit'' aimed at reciprocating North Korea's gesture of sending two state delegations to Beijing recently. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Zhang Qiyue, has expressed the hope that the countries concerned with the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue would "make positive efforts for the continuation of the (Beijing) talks''. The six parties — the U.S., the DPRK, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia — met in Beijing last August. The prospects of a new round of these parleys have improved in recent days, following the DPRK's indication of willingness to consider the U.S. President, George W. Bush's recent initiative about considering the issuance of certain security assurances to Pyongyang within the framework of the six-party talks. Pyongyang has said that it would consider reciprocating Mr. Bush's gesture if that were really based on a perceivable U.S. "intention to coexist with the DPRK''.
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