A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks in the first such high-level visit since June last year, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, after China halted coal imports from the impoverished nation under U. N. sanctions.
SEOUL: A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks in the first such high-level visit since June last year, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, after China halted coal imports from the impoverished nation under U. N. sanctions.
North Korea’s main diplomatic ally said it would ban coal imports about a week after the isolated country this month tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile, for the first time since U. S. President Donald Trump took office.
The North’s Vice Foreign Minister Ri Kil Song arrived by air in the Chinese capital, Kyodo said, in the first such visit since a June trip by Ri Su Yong, a member of the country’s ruling party politburo.
