China’s top state media outlets have sent delegations to North Korea in recent days, according to the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), likely for cooperation talks.

A delegation representing the People’s Daily, an organ of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), arrived Monday as another delegation for the official state news agency Xinhua left the same day.

KCNA did not, however, report on the details of either delegation’s visits, though the two countries have this year expressed interest in boosting cooperation in multiple exchanges in the media sphere. 

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