North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told a visiting Chinese diplomat Wednesday that his country seeks a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua also paraphrased Kim as saying he hoped six-party international talks could be an important platform for realizing that goal. A new round of talks – involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan – are expected to begin in Beijing the week of July 25. Full Story