Key facts
- Cai Qi told the delegation both sides should increase strategic communication and coordination.
- Cai said China is willing to work with North Korea to implement the consensus of their top leaders.
- Kim Song Nam directs the Workers' Party of Korea's International Affairs Department.
- The trip followed a Communist Party conclave on party discipline and Kim Jong Un's Dandong visit.
Senior Chinese official Cai Qi told a North Korean delegation in Beijing on Friday that both sides should increase strategic communication and coordination and promote regional peace, stability and development, Chinese state media reported, according to Reuters.