Update 22:53 KST: Comments from Xi Jinping-RI Yong Ho meeting added.

The Chinese government on Friday reiterated its support for North Korea’s strategic shift towards domestic economic development during a meeting between the country’s two foreign ministers in Beijing.

Kim Jong Un in April announced at the 3rd Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) that North Korea would no longer test nuclear weapons and instead would turn its focus on building its “socialist economic system.”

Friday saw Wang reiterate China’s support for that plan, as well as Beijing’s commitment to improve ties between the two countries.

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