Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing Saturday that plans tabled by the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) shared "common elements" with many positive ideas worthy serious study.

Wang made the remarks at a press conference after the conclusion of the third round of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.

The DPRK plan emphasized the first phase of nuclear abandonment while the United States plan stressed specific ways and measures for the complete nuclear abandonment, he said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 26, 2004)