From The Independent UK
By Anne Penketh

Three weeks after conducting its first nuclear test, which sent shockwaves round the world, North Korea yesterday agreed to return to the negotiating table.

The decision is a diplomatic victory for China, North Korea’s Communist ally and a veto-holding power on the United Nations Security Council, which lost patience after the nuclear test on 9 October.

It also emerged yesterday that China cut off oil supplies to its neighbourin September amid reports that a test was imminent and sent an envoy to read the riot act to North Korea’s “Dear Leader”, Kim Jong Il, before hosting yesterday’s talks in Beijing

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