North Korea Revives border claim

SEOUL - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il met a delegation of senior Chinese officials on Thursday, but neither country specified, visit Pyongyang's aggression against South Korea, despite strong pressure from the South and other Nations, the China use its influence in his allies in check hold would affect.

Instead, North Korea made earlier in the day his direct statement about his motivation for the November 23 attack on the South Island's Yeonpyeong, revival of previous claims the of all waters around the island in the Yellow Sea has made for possession. The international recognized border northern waters is a few miles north of the island.

GAO Haorong/Xinhua/associated press China's State-run Xinhua News Agency published a photo of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in Brown, shaking hands with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday.

Officially, South Korea remained agencies quietly on North Korea's claim, with Government and defence, to say nothing in response. But criticized analysts from all sides of the political spectrum in the South.

In Pyongyang met a delegation led by Chinese State Councilor to Dai Bingguo Mr. Kim discuss what state media from both countries described as "bilateral relations" and "Questions of mutual interest." A spokeswoman at the Foreign Ministry of China declined further comment.

China have criticised the United States and other countries, because to stop pressure on North Korea, aggression towards the South. The Secretary of State Japan and South Korea called earlier this week for China to North Korea contained and to warn against further attacks.

The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of staff, Admiral Michael Mullen said when visit in South Korea and Japan China has the greatest influence on North Korea. "Must result in China and North Korea in a better future to lead," he said in Tokyo on Thursday.

In response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Thursday, I want the people wondering the accusations against China, what did you towards regional stability and peace?

North Korea's public statements to the November 23 attack explain concentrated on the positioning of adjacent maritime border coast of countries.

Most analysts believe that Pyongyang deep redefined the border to its vessels in less time and its naval vessels will access to open water closer to South Korea.

But some believe his growing aggressiveness on the matter by other forces, such as their desire to South Korea unconditional financial payments in the year 2008 stopped and strengthening of Mr. of Kim's will attempt to military services to use to support his son as his successor as leader of the country controlled rally restart.

A detailed timeline of the recent skirmishes between North and South Korea.

Since the strike note of the four South Koreans killed, North Korea has it said on the island fired, because artillery shells test South Korea, on the island on the November 23 in its waters was performed.

But the North instructions omit, exactly where it South Korea fired the interpretation believed leave open South Korea violated the internationally accepted maritime border. Seoul denied fires in northern waters.

Thursday North Korea say where it thought again exactly, South Korea fired but signals, it doesn't matter, because it rejects the existing border, his statement called a "bogus line."

"The above Island deep is in the territorial waters of [North Korean] side of the maritime demarcation line," said the statement.

Border accepted in the international is southern waters within the island.

"If all live shell firing from there, shells are bound to delete no matter in which direction you are raised within the territorial waters from the page [Korean]," the statement added.

South Korea confirms the test but said it southward, away from the between maritime border than of the United Nations in the aftermath of the 1950s Korea war years created fired.

A preliminary analysis by the South of the military response to Northern fire - the perceived slowness of which has become a political issue in South Korea - North Korea showed that the artillery cannons on the marine outposts on Yeonpyeong faced South, when the fire started and had to be rearranged again to fire.

Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Center and State Chinese Council member Dai Bingguo delivered turned head Thursday in Pyongyang in a photo of the North Korean official KCNA news agency.

North Korea since the late 1990s has grown, more vowels and belligerent claim a different maritime borders, running, many miles south of the one drawn up by the United Nations and in South Korea the Northern line limit, or professional.

There are five islands in North Korea's demand, long South Korea controlled by been in its waters. However, has no yet North Korea claimed possession of the Islands.

"What you say is totally unacceptable," said Kim Tae-woo, analyst at the Korea Institute of defense analysis and a hawk on North Korean political issues. "Are on the sovereignty and territory of the South hurt."

The participatory people's Party, a political party in the Republic Korea that earlier this week reaffirmed his intercession for turning the controversial maritime border in a shared area, criticized the North statement. "Can we never accept their irrational demands", a spokesman said.

A few years ago offered South Korea to allow North Korean vessels in waters under the NLL and offered to pay the North Koreans above-market prices for fish. But as part of offer North Korea would have required their military ships on the NLL, rejected the Pyongyang to keep something.

The two Koreas in 2007 agreed to create a "peace zone" in the disputed waters, but the agreement was vague and interpreted differently in the two countries, which was later to take the matter into line.

-Jaeyeon Woo in Seoul and Owen Fletcher in Beijing contributed to this article.

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