Chairman of the National People's Congress Zhao Leji arrived in Pyongyang to start a visit to North Korea and held talks with Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. The two sides exchanged views on the international and regional situation and the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
Zhao Leji stressed that China is willing to work with the DPRK to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, take the China-DPRK Friendship Year event as an opportunity to intensify high-level exchanges, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, promote cultural exchanges, strengthen strategic coordination, and promote China-DPRK relations. Keep moving forward.
Zhao Leji said that exchanges between legislative bodies are an important part of China-North Korea relations and have long played a positive role in deepening and developing relations between the two countries. China is willing to intensify legislative exchanges and cooperation with the DPRK to help China-DPRK traditional friendly cooperative relations move to a higher level.
Choe Ryong Hae said that the DPRK is willing to work with China to follow the direction guided by the top leaders of the two parties and two countries and take the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and the DPRK-China Friendship Year as an opportunity to inherit and develop the traditional friendship between the DPRK and China, deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and promote the DPRK-China friendship. China-China friendly cooperative relations continue to develop.
