SEOUL (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and a top Chinese envoy Thursday touted “consensus” between the communist allies regarding the region's worst crisis in years, official media reported. China's most senior foreign policymaker Dai Bingguo visited Pyongyang as pressure intensifies on Beijing to rein in its unruly ally, after North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean island inflamed tensions on the peninsula. “The two sides reached consensus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean peninsula after candid and in-depth talks,” said a brief report from China's Xinhua news agency, datelined Pyongyang. North Korea's…
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