BEIJING (REUTERS) — Senior Chinese diplomat Song Tao will lead a Chinese art troupe to North Korea, Chinese state media said on Wednesday (April 11), in a further sign of improving ties after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visited Beijing last month..
BEIJING (REUTERS) — Senior Chinese diplomat Song Tao will lead a Chinese art troupe to North Korea, Chinese state media said on Wednesday (April 11), in a further sign of improving ties after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visited Beijing last month.
The delegation led by Song, the head of the Communist Party’s International Department, will leave for North Korea on Friday for an April Spring Friendship Art Festival, the official Xinhua news agency said without providing details.
The North’s official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said the visit by the art troupe would boost friendly bilateral relations «onto a new high stage» following leader Kim’s «first historic visit to China».
«The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea will warmly welcome the artists of the friendly neighbouring country and specially greet them,» it said.
