North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Chinese leader | Stories about Kim Jong Un

The meeting comes after Xi visited Kim, pledging diplomatic, diplomatic and military cooperation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks with Wang Huning, China’s fourth-highest ranking official, and pledged to deepen ties with Beijing, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Wang, a member of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, is leading the Chinese delegation to Pyongyang that arrived on Wednesday.

Thursday’s summit is the latest in a series of meetings between Beijing and Pyongyang following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea in June, the first in seven years. They are seen as China’s efforts to strengthen its influence over North Korea’s cultural ties as North Korea’s relationship with Russia grows.

Although Pyongyang has drawn closer to Moscow in recent years, including signing a security pact that saw thousands of North Korean troops deployed to fight Russia in Ukraine, China remains North Korea’s biggest economic partner.

Kim and Wang said they will try to fulfill the agreement reached between China and North Korea during Xi’s visit.

Time that tip Xi and Kim adopted what North Korean media described as a “long-term plan” to promote “a very strong and strategic relationship”.

Xi has pushed closer to diplomacy, law enforcement and the military cooperation with North Koreaaccording to Chinese media.

During his meeting with Wang this week, Kim said it was “the standard policy of neighboring countries… to firmly establish cultural relations and cooperation”, KCNA said.

Wang said that “China’s strong support for the cause of the Korean people under the leadership of Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un will not be changed”.

During the visit, the Chinese delegation visited a memorial site dedicated to Chinese soldiers who died in the Korean War, a Workers’ Party cadre training school, and a mausoleum where the bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are kept, KCNA said.

Earlier in the trip, Wang met with Jo Yong Won, a senior official in North Korea’s Workers’ Party, where he also pledged the “will of the Chinese party and government” to implement the agreement reached by Xi and Kim last month.