The central prosecutors’ offices of North Korea and China signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreeing to boost cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday, according to an SPP official report.

The agreement was signed by Director Kim Myong Gil of North Korea’s Central Public Prosecutors Office (CPPO) and procurator-general Zhang Jun of China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), the report said.

A delegation led by Kim was reported in North Korean state media to have left Pyongyang earlier that same day.

With the agreement, Zhang was reported to have expressed “hope that the prosecutorial organs of the two countries will further enhance friendship,