The DPRK held a grand welcome ceremony at Kim Il Sung Square for Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, who arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a state visit.

⚽️A football club from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (#DPRK#) arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Sunday for the semifinals of the AFC Women's Champions League, marking the first visit by DPRK athletes to #SouthKorea# for a sports competition in nearly eight years.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang held talks with Pak Thae Song, Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Beijing. #China# is ready to align development strategies with the #DPRK#, steadily expand economic and trade exchanges, promote connectivity, deepen cooperation in people’s livelihood sectors including healthcare and education, and improve the well-being of the two peoples. As the international landscape is undergoing profound and complex changes, China and the DPRK, both socialist countries, should strengthen strategic coordination and cooperation, and jointly safeguard their legitimate rights and interests as well as international fairness and justice. 🔗

President Xi Jinping met with Pak Thae Song, Member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Vice President of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Premier of the Cabinet. Premier Pak Thae Song is on an official visit to China. President Xi stressed that the current international landscape is fraught with changes and turbulence. Both China and the DPRK should maintain firm strategic resolve, enhance strategic confidence, accelerate the implementation of the consensus reached between me and General Secretary Kim Jong Un, and ensure that the relations between our two parties and countries keep pace with the times and continue to develop in a direction that serves our respective socialist cause and modernization.