Chinese and North Korean officials at meetings in Beijing on Tuesday agreed to expand legal cooperation exchanges and cooperation, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

In a meeting with the DPRK’s top legal official Kang Yun Sok, Communist Party of China (CPC) Politburo member Guo Shengkun was said to have “called on the judicial authorities of the two countries to step up exchange and cooperation.”

Guo — who concurrently serves as head of the CPC Central Committee’s Commission for Political and Legal Affairs — also asked that the two countries “share their experience and practices in the rule of law and justice.”

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