BEIJING - China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters at a press conference Wednesday that Beijing wishes to solve the immediate problems of the North Korea nuclear crisis through talks and peaceful measures based on the 1994 Geneva Agreed framework between the United States and the North.

Liu was responding to a question regarding China's position on the possibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency handing over the nuclear issue to the United Nations Security Council.

Liu also expressed opposition to North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, saying China "coherently supports denuclearization of the Korean peninsula" and advocates maintaining peace and security through talks. (Yeo Shi-dong, sdyeo@chosun.com )