North Korean leader Kim Jong-il promised to abide by the 1992 agreement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula during his meeting with Chinese envoy Tang Jiaxuan in Pyongyang on Oct. 19, diplomatic sources here said Sunday.
Beijing has briefed Tokyo on the results of Tang's North Korean visit, quoting Kim as promising to observe the inter-Korean denuclearization accord signed in 1992, said the sources.
The Chinese government reportedly concluded on the basis of Kim's remarks that Pyongyang would not carry out a second nuclear bomb test, they said.
But it is not clear whether the reclusive North Korean leader clearly expressed an intention to suspend an additional nuclear test, they added.
Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Yonhap News)
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