North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Pyongyang to discuss bilateral cooperation and the situation in the region following a historic inter-Korean summit last week, state media reports.
During their meeting, Kim and Yi discussed bilateral cooperation "and issues of mutual concern including the direction and prospect of the development of the situation on the Korean peninsula," reported North Korean state news agency KCNA.
"The meeting also served to reconfirm the views of the DPRK and China on important issues and (the leaders) exchanged opinions on them," KCNA reported.
The meeting comes less than a week after a summit between Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in which they agreed to work together to achieve complete denuclearisation of the peninsula.
Yi's two-day visit to Pyongyang on Wednesday and Thursday is the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister to North Korea in 11 years and comes after Kim's surprise visit to Beijing in late March to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Yi also met his North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong-ho and the two ministers are believed to have discussed the upcoming summit between Kim and United States President Donald Trump to discuss possible denuclearisation of the regime.
During the inter-Korean summit last Friday, Seoul and Pyongyang - which have been technically at war over the last 65 years as the Korean War (1950-1953) had ended with an armistice and not a definitive treaty - also pledged to sign a peace deal.
Beijing, which has long backed denuclearisation of North Korea had maintained that it would like to work with the two Koreas and the US for the signing of a definitive peace treaty.
