Wednesday, May 25, 2011

N. Korea's Kim visit highlights China ties to shunned regimes!

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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press | AP – 12 minutes ago



EIJING (AP) — Visits to Beijing this week by top officials from North Korea, Myanmar, and Iran are spotlighting China's cozy ties with nations widely shunned for human rights abuses and threatening behavior.
North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Il apparently conferred Wednesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao in a meeting underscoring the influence economic powerhouse China has with Kim's ostracized regime, which struggles to feed its people.
On Thursday, Beijing will host a visit from Myanmar President Thein Sein, a former general and prime minister in the military junta that handed power to a nominally civilian government at the end of March. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi stopped in Beijing as part of commemorations of four decades of diplomatic ties.
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