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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N. Korean leader Kim Jong Il's China visit highlights crucial ties!

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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press | AP – 32 minutes ago

BEIJING (AP) — Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong II's visit to crucial ally China highlights his regime's increasing dependence on its giant neighbor amid his country's economic collapse and diplomatic isolation over its nuclear program.

This is Kim's third trip to China in just over a year, indicating an interest in the market economy initiatives that Beijing is believed to be pushing for in North Korea. But previous reform attempts have been abandoned in spite of chronic food shortages, and it's far from clear how far the ailing 69-year-old Kim — or his anointed successor, son Kim Jong Un — would be willing to go.

"For North Korea, it won't be easy to reform its economy and open up itself to the outside world," said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korean studies at Seoul's Dongguk University.

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