Beijing: China and South Korea on Friday agreed to back "necessary and appropriate" steps by the UN Security Council against North Korea on its claimed nuclear test.
President Hu Jintao and his visiting South Korean counterpart Roh Moo Hyun reached the agreement during their talks.
"The two leaders agreed to support appropriate and necessary countermeasures by the UNSC against North Korea. They also supported a peaceful settlement of the North Korean nuclear issue," South Korean Chief Security Secretary Song Min-Soon said.
But he clarified that they did not discuss specific details of the draft resolution currently before UNSC.
"The two leaders did not discuss details of the necessary and appropriate countermeasures by the UNSC. Both parties will hold follow-up negotiations on the effects of UN-led or individual sanctions for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula," Song was quoted as saying by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Roh and Hu also agreed to urge North Korea to refrain from taking steps that would further deteriorate the situation and to return to the six-party talks aimed at persuading it to abandon the nuclear weapons programmes, Song said.
The two leaders had reached "important" consensus on the North Korean nuclear issue, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, without giving any details.
They had a 40-minute close-door meeting before the official talks in the Great Hall of the People.
After the meeting, Hu said he exchanged views with Roh on bilateral relations and other regional and international issues including the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.
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