Chinas top foreign policy official met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il Thursday and the two sides reached consensus about defusing tensions on the Korean peninsula officials said The meeting marks the first between Kim and a top official from China since the flareup between the two KoreasThe two sides reached consensus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean Peninsula after candid and indepth talks said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu She did not elaborate on what Kim discussed with the official Dai Bingguo during the latters visit to Pyongyang Tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated following North Koreas shelling of South Koreas Yeonpyeong Island last month as well as the March sinking of a South Korean warship  allegedly by a North Korean torpedo  and recent revelations that it is enriching uranium for nuclear weapons North Korean officials have been pushing for the resumption of sixparty talks including China and Russia China has also called for emergency talks among all the six countries  North Korea South Korea China the United States Japan and Russia  to address the tensions on the Korean peninsula But the United States has thus far refused looking first for proof that North Korea is serious about not stoking military tensions and serious about stifling development of its nuclear program For the second day in a row the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff called on China to use its influence instead to rein in North Korea to prevent a fullblown crisis China is North Koreas strongest ally and largest trading partnerI actually believe that because these provocations continue and seemingly at a frequent interval that the danger is going up and that steps must be taken to ensure that they stop he said at a news conference in TokyoMuch of that volatility is owed to the reckless behavior of the North Korean regime enabled by their friends in ChinaCNNs Jo Kent contributed to this report 