Japan's prime minister says China against N. Korea test

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters Sunday that China' President Hu Jintao agreed with Japan's position that North Korean nuclear tests are unacceptable and "cannot be tolerated."

Abe's visit to Beijing is the first by a Japanese prime minister in five years, but has been overshadowed by the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Some analysts thought that Pyongyang might conduct the tests on Sunday, the aniversary of the North Korean leader's ascent to leadership of the Korean Workers' Party.


North Korea celebrated leader Kim Jong-Il on the ninth anniversary of his rise to Korean Workers' Party chief, but was silent over the regime's threat to test a nuclear bomb. AFP/KCNA/File via Yahoo News.