China hopes countries taking part in the Six-Party Talks will honor their pledges and implement the second-phase of the deal agreed upon last month, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said yesterday.

Vice-Foreign Minister Wu Dawei met with US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Kim Kye-Gwan in Beijing yesterday, Liu said. Hill and Kim are their respective countries' representatives to the Six-Party Talks.

Wu exchanged views with the two leaders on the progress of disabling DPRK's nuclear facilities in the next stages, Liu said.