SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 19, SPA -- Chinese envoys met with North Korea's reclusive leader Thursday amid worries the country would test another nuclear device. China could play the most important role in discouraging the North from carrying out an apparent threat to stage a second atomic blast. The Chinese mission met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and delivered a message from China's president, Hu Jinatao, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters in Beijing. It was the highest-level Chinese visit to its isolated ally since the Oct. 9 nuclear test, the Associated Press reported. Liu said the visit was «very significant» but had nodetails about the message. But the spokesman said theenvoys had «in-depth discussions on China-North Korearelations as well as the prevailing situation on the KoreanPeninsula.» Liu added, «We hope China's diplomatic efforts ... willbear fruit.» The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief report the Chinese mission included State CouncilorTang Jiaxuan, Beijing's nuclear envoy Wu Dawei and ViceForeign Minister Dai Bingguo.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/397043