A senior Chinese Communist Party official held talks in North Korea on Saturday, joining a flurry of diplomats trying to woo the isolated state back into talks on its nuclear weapons programme. But North Korea, which this week said it had nuclear bombs, showed no signs of budging, stressing that conditions were not right to resume six-party negotiations involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan. Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party's international liaison department, held talks in Pyongyang with Kim Yong-nam, president of Communist North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, China's Xinhua news agency said. "The two sides exchanged views on bilateral relations and inter-party contacts, as well as regional and global issues of common concern," Xinhua said. Before leaving for North Korea, Wang said the fate of the stalled talks would be up for discussion. China said this week it was committed to the six-party process and that putting pressure on the North was not a solution. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said he did not hold out much hope of a quick return to the talks. --More 1806 Local Time 1506 GMT
