China's Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-il during a meeting in Pyongyang October 5, 2009 in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-il during a meeting in Pyongyang October 5, 2009 in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency.

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  1. In this photo taken by Korean Central News Agency and released via Korea News Service Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, Chinese Premier Premier Wen Jiabao, right, has a light moment with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, at Paekhwawon State Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.
  2. In this photo taken by Korean Central News Agency and released via Korea News Service Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, Chinese Premier Premier Wen Jiabao, left, hugs North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, as he bids fairewell at Paekhwawon State Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.
  3. In this photo taken by Korean Central News Agency and released via Korea News Service Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, Chinese Premier Premier Wen Jiabao, center left, explains gifts given by him to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center right at Paekhwawon State Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.
  4. In this photo taken by Korean Central News Agency and released via Korea News Service Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, Chinese Premier Premier Wen Jiabao, center right, has light moment with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center left, at Paekhwawon State Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.
  5. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) presents gifts to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (2nd R) during their meeting in Pyongyang October 5, 2009, in this picture released October 6, 2009 by North Korea's official news agency KCNA. North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report it was near restoring its atomic plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes high.
  6. In this photo released on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 by the (North) Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, has a light moment with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, as they watch propaganda spectacles known as "mass games" at a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009.
  7. China's Premier Wen Jiabao (L) talks with North Korea's nominal No.2 leader and technical head of state Kim Yong-nam during their meeting at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang October 5, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA October 6, 2009.
  8. China's Premier Wen Jiabao (C) waves beside North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il (R) as they watch performances during the closing ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the North Korea-China amity treaty in Pyongyang October 5, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA October 6, 2009.
  9. This Xinhua news agency photo taken on Thursday Oct. 15, 2009 shows a baby monkey, born two months ago, at Xishuangbanna Dai Park in Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan province.
  10. This Xinhua news agency photo taken on Thursday Oct. 15, 2009 shows a baby monkey, born two months ago, at Xishuangbanna Dai Park in Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan province.
  11. In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, police officers stand guard outside the Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Monday Oct. 12, 2009. The court in China's far western Xinjiang region sentenced six men to death Monday for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people. A seventh man was given life imprisonment.
  12. In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, suspect Xiao Jianhua who was charged for intentionally assaulting people during the Xuri Toy Factory brawl, hears the verdict at the Intermediate People's Court of Shaoguan in Shaoguan City, south China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Xiao was given death sentence, and his fellow worker life imprisonment over the brawl on June 26 that left two employees dead in Guangdong Province, as two local courts in Shaoguan on Saturday also sentenced nine accessaries to prison terms ranging from five to eight years at the first-instance trial of the brawl case. The brawl sparked riots in western Xinjiang region that left almost 200 dead in China's worst ethnic violence in decades.
  13. In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, suspects in orange vests, from left, Xiao Jianhua, Xu Qiqi, Jiang Jing, Liao Pusheng and Shen Wenqing, who were charged for intentionally assaulting people during the Xuri Toy Factory brawl, hear the verdict at the Intermediate People's Court of Shaoguan in Shaoguan City, south China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Xiao was given death sentence, and Xu life imprisonment over the brawl on June 26 that left two employees dead in Guangdong Province, as two local courts in Shaoguan on Saturday also sentenced nine accessaries to prison terms ranging from five to eight years at the first-instance trial of the brawl case. The brawl sparked riots in western Xinjiang region that left almost 200 dead in China's worst ethnic violence in decades.
  14. In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, miners are seen around a lifter at a tin ore mine operated by the Shanxing Antimony Industry Company in Lengshuijiang in China's Hunan province, on Friday Oct. 9, 2009. The collapse of two elevators in the tin ore mine in central China has killed 26 men and injured five others in the latest accident to hit the country's dangerous mining industry.
  15. In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, right, meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Beijing, capital of China, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.
  16. In this Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009, photo released by the Xinhua news agency, tourists enjoy themselves in the Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing, China. The 1,163 parks in Beijing received over 13 million tourists during the 8-day National Day holidays, according to Xinhua.

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