China sends two envoys to N Korea

China’s president Hu Jintao appears to have sent a special envoy to North Korea, a former South Korean politician said today, amid speculation that the North might conduct another nuclear test.

China’s state councillor Tang Jiaxuan and its nuclear envoy Wu Dawei have left China and probably went to Pyongyang yesterday or early today, Jang Sung-min said, citing diplomatic officials in Beijing.