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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit North Korea

Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 30 Apr 2018, 07:17 am Print

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit North Korea

Beijing: Following the historic North-South meet in the Korean peninsula last week, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit Pyongyang later this week.

Wang's visit will be the highest Chinese visit to North Korea in recent years.

Earlier this month, media reported a clandestine meeting between Kim and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The meeting took place before Kim met Moon.

Talks between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and South Korea's Moon Jae-in took place in the border peace village in Panmunjom on Friday.

This was the first such high level meeting between the two neighbours in a decade.

Prior to the latest talks, the last North-South dialogue had taken place in 2007 in Pyongyang.

During the meeting, the two leaders announced to formally end a 65-year-old Korean war this year with the signing of a peace treaty.

According to media reports, a document, called the “Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula,” said: “The two leaders solemnly declare ... that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and a new era of peace has begun.”

North Korea has also announced that it will lay down nuclear tests and weapons for now, as Kim is presently rallying for peace in the Korean Peninsula.

According to NK News, during his meeting with Moon, while sharing a stroll, Kim also spoke about defectors.

"We should value this opportunity so that the wound between the two Koreas can be healed. The borderline is not high, it will be eventually erased if a large number of people pass over," Kim told Moon.