BEIJING (Reuters) – A senior Chinese official, Zhao Leji, met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Saturday, to whom he expressed Beijing’s desire to deepen relations of trust and cooperation, the media reported. Chinese state media.
Chairman of the Standing Committee at the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, Zhao Leji is completing a so-called goodwill tour that began Thursday.
“No matter how the international situation develops, the traditional friendship between China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), created and nurtured by the older generation of leaders of the two parties and countries, remains deep-rooted and strong over time,” Zhao said in a speech, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
In his speech at the opening ceremony of the China-DPRK Friendship Year, Zhao noted that the two countries’ top leaders have met five times in recent years.
(Reporting David Kirton and the Shenzhen and Beijing offices; French version Elizabeth Pineau)
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