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Senior Chinese diplomat visiting North Korea

China will send a high-level diplomatic envoy to North Korea, Business Insider, Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard, Reuters, Nov. 15, 2017  BEIJING — A senior Chinese diplomat will visit North Korea on Friday as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing said, though it did not say the envoy was planning to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

China has repeatedly pushed for a diplomatic solution to the crisis but in recent months has had only limited high-level exchanges with North Korea. The last time China’s special envoy for North Korea visited the country was in February 2016.

In a brief dispatch, China’s Xinhua news agency said Song Tao, who heads the ruling Communist Party’s external-affairs department, would leave for North Korea on Friday.

He will “inform the DPRK of the 19th CPC National Congress and visit the DPRK,” Xinhua said on Wednesday, using an acronym for the North’s official name and referring to China’s recently concluded Communist Party congress at which Xi further cemented his power…..http://www.businessinsider.com/china-sends-high-level-diplomatic-envoy-to-north-korea-2017-11?IR=T

November 17, 2017 - Posted by | China, politics international

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