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South Korea seeks China's help in defusing nuclear standoff.(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Michael A. Lev
BEIJING _ A South Korean envoy arrived in China's capital Wednesday for high-level diplomatic meetings, hoping to persuade China's government to take a leading role in defusing the North Korean nuclear standoff.
China, along with Russia, is one of North Korea's few friends, and it has stated repeatedly that it wants to see the situation resolved through dialogue and that it supports the idea of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
Exactly how deeply China is willing to get involved, and whether it has more clout than any other government, has not been made clear by Beijing's government, which often operates behind a veil of secrecy.
Since North Korea admitted new nuclear ambitions in October, China's government has sounded a distinctly neutral tone on the issue and deflected questions about Beijing's presumed influence, saying only that North Korea and China are "friendly neighbors" who engage in "constant exchanges and consultations."
When Chinese President Jiang Zemin met President Bush in October, Jiang told him that China had been "completely in the dark" about North Korea's ambitions to restart its nuclear program.
Diplomats say that at times the Chinese government has sounded as exasperated as the rest of the world with North Korea's belligerent isolationism, though the overall impression is that China is fence-sitting.
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