FILE - In this May 12, 2011 file photo, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo talks during a press conference after meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, not seen, at the EU - China dialogue in the Royal Palace of Godollo in the town of Godollo Hungary. Dai, China's top foreign policy official, has met a North Korean delegation and expressed confidence in the country's young leader just over a week after Pyongyang conducted a rocket launch that Beijing had discouraged. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)