CPC Political Bureau member and Central Foreign Affairs Office director Wang Yi
met in Beijing on the 5th with a Workers' Party of Korea delegation led by WPK
Political Bureau member, Central Committee secretary and International
Department head Kim Song-nam. Wang cited Xi's June state visit to N. Korea, said
China will work with Pyongyang to implement the top leaders' consensus and push
bilateral ties to become deeper and more substantive, and briefed the delegation
on the main outcomes of the CPC 20th Central Committee's Fifth Plenum. Kim said
N. Korea is willing to follow the leaders' guidance and cooperate with China to
develop bilateral friendship.