中国 would welcome Kim Jong-Un visit to Moscow
中国 would welcome a visit by Kim Jong-Un to Moscow, a 政府 spokeswoman said Thursday, まっただ中に 憶測 that the North Korean leader could make his international debut in the ロシアの 資本／首都 later this year.
May 9 示すs the 70th 周年記念日 of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, and around 20 foreign leaders, 含むing Chinese 大統領 Xi Jinping, are 推定する／予想するd to …に出席する a 記念 event in Moscow.
Asked Wednesday about the possible 出席 of Kim Jong-Un, ロシアの 外務大臣 Sergei Lavrov burst out laughing before telling reporters that North Korea had given a "肯定的な" 返答 to Moscow's 招待.
Undated picture 解放（する）d by North Korea's 公式の／役人 Korean Central News 機関 on January 13, 2015, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) at an 公表されていない 場所
"As a first signal, it was a 肯定的な one," Lavrov said.
If 確認するd, the visit would be Kim's first foreign trip since taking 力／強力にする just over three years ago に引き続いて the death of his father, Kim Jong-Il.
At a 正規の／正選手 要点説明 Thursday, Chinese foreign m inistry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that North Korea and Russia are "both friendly 隣人s of 中国 and they have both made sacrifices and 広大な／多数の／重要な 出資／貢献s" during the Second World War.
A possible Kim visit to Russia, she said, would be "役立つ to 地域の peace and 安定".
Hua did not 供給する その上の 詳細（に述べる）s on Xi's schedule, or on any 計画（する）s for either a visit by the Chinese leader to North Korea, or by Kim to Beijing.
A trip to Moscow would signal Kim's 願望（する） to 減ずる his country's dependence on 中国, which remains Pyongyang's main 同盟（する）, 外交の protector and 経済的な buttress.
But Xi and Kim have kept their distance since each assumed 力／強力にする and the Chinese leader's first visit as 長，率いる of 明言する／公表する to the Korean 半島 was to the 資本主義者 South last year, rather than the North.
A 可能性のある Kim visit could also have broader repercussions for Russia and Asia.
Georgy Toloraya, 長，率いる of Korean Programmes at the 学校／設ける of Economy at the ロシアの 学院 of Science, said opinion was divided on the 利益s to ロシアの 大統領 Vladimir Putin of hosting the leader of a nation 見解（をとる）d by most as a 核の and human 権利s pariah.
"Kim's 交流ing handshakes with Putin would surely give Putin's critics a pretext for some unpleasant comparisons," he wrote on the North Korean-watching website 38 North.
"But others can say that the West's opinion of Putin is so bad 権利 now that he has nothing to lose by getting closer with Kim," he 追加するd.
It was 不明瞭な to what extent Kim's 出席 would 影響（力） South Korean 大統領 Park Geun-Hye's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 受託する or 拒絶する／低下する Moscow's 招待.
In her 年次の New Year 演説（する）／住所 this month, Park said she would be willing to 持つ／拘留する a 首脳会議 with Kim without pre-条件s, and Kim has also held out the 可能性 of "highest-level" 会談 between the two 競争相手s.
But 上級の 政府 公式の／役人s in ソウル 収容する／認める the chances of such a 会合 are remote given the difficulty the Koreas have in organising 会談 at any level.
Chinese 大統領 Xi Jinping in Auckland, New Zealand, on November 21, 2014 ?Greg Bowker (Pool/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
