Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Pak Thae Song, premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea cabinet, in Beijing on Friday.
Pak Thae Song is also a member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK.
The meeting took place in Beijing on Friday.
The encounter forms part of high-level exchanges between China and the DPRK.