Key facts
- Wang Yi hosted Kim Song-nam, international affairs chief of North Korea's Workers' Party, in Beijing on November 5, 2026.
- Kim Song-nam's delegation arrived in Beijing on November 3 at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, KCNA said.
- Wang said China is ready to work with North Korea to implement consensuses reached during Xi Jinping's June visit to Pyongyang, per the WeChat post.
- Kim Song-nam called Xi's June visit to North Korea a new milestone for bilateral ties, according to the same post.
- Xie Chuntao, executive vice president of the Chinese party's Central Committee Party School, led a delegation to Pyongyang on Monday, KCNA said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Kim Song-nam, a member of the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party of Korea and a party secretary, and his delegation in Beijing on November 5, 2026, according to a post on the official WeChat account of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee.
During the meeting, Wang noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached a series of "important consensuses" for better bilateral relations during Xi's visit to Pyongyang in June, stressing Beijing's willingness to "resolutely" implement those consensuses, according to the post. The top Chinese diplomat also voiced hopes for the bilateral ties to develop "deeply, substantially and positively" for the benefit of both countries.
The North Korean official portrayed Xi's visit to the North in June as a "new milestone" for bilateral ties that met the "demands of the new era," according to the post. He also recalled the North Korean leader's recent trip to the Chinese border city of Dandong, saying the visit reaffirmed the "strategic nature of the blood-cemented friendship."
Kim Song-nam's delegation arrived in Beijing on November 3 at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, the Korean Central News Agency reported. The visit came ten days after Kim Jong-un made a visit to Dandong.
In a separate dispatch, KCNA reported that Xie Chuntao, executive vice president of the Party School of the Chinese party's central committee, and his delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Monday. Xie's delegation met Ju Chang-il, a party secretary of the North, and visited the Central Cadres Training School.