Beijing is ready to deepen collaboration with Pyongyang to advance a “more just and equitable” international order, visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as the two countries spotlighted their “unwavering” ties.
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It remained China’s “unwavering” policy to maintain, consolidate and develop the traditional friendship and cooperation with North Korea, Li said during the meeting on Thursday, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.
Li – China’s No 2 official and the most senior Chinese dignitary to visit North Korea since 2019 – also highlighted Beijing’s commitment to improving high-level exchanges and strategic communication with Pyongyang.
“China is willing to work with North Korea to … closely coordinate and cooperate in international and regional affairs, strengthen multilateral collaboration, firmly safeguard and practice multilateralism and promote the development of the international order in a more just and equitable direction,” he added.
According to North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim said it was also the “unwavering” stand of Pyongyang to further strengthen and develop friendly and cooperative relations with Beijing “in line with the demands of the times”.
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“Our party, government and people, together with the Chinese comrades, will promote more dynamic development of DPRK-China relations in the common struggle for realising the socialist cause,” Kim said, referring to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea’s official name.