North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Thursday and reiterated his commitment to the “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”, China’s foreign ministry said in a press release.

Wang, who is in North Korea at the invitation of the DPRK foreign minister Ri Yong Ho, also conveyed his congratulations to the leader for staging the first high-level inter-Korean summit since 2007, which took place at Panmunjom on Friday.

“Kim Jong Un said that the realization of the denuclearization of the peninsula is the firm position of the DPRK,” the press release read.

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