DPRK Premier Meets Chairman of NPC Standing Committee of PRC

Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Premier Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on an official visit to the People's Republic of China, met Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Communist Party of China and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, at the Great Hall of the People on Friday afternoon.

The meeting expressed the will to successfully implement the important common understanding reached between the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, add luster to the traditional friendship, strengthen the mutual-beneficial cooperation and deepen exchange and cooperation between legislative bodies so as to promote greater development in the DPRK-China relations.

Present there were Kim Song Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and other leading members of the DPRK party and government delegation, and Liu Qi, secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee of China, and other officials concerned. -0-