North Korean Workers’ Party International Secretary Kim Song Nam met Chinese Communist Party International Department head Liu Haixing in China, according to North Korea’s state news agency on November 7. Kim described progress in party building and said North Korea was mobilizing to meet the first-year targets of the five-year plan presented at its ninth party congress, while Liu said Beijing attached great importance to the visit.
The two sides reaffirmed support for their policies on socialist construction and foreign affairs and expressed a desire to deepen cooperation, after Kim had also met Politburo Standing Committee member Cai Qi.