North Korea and China held bilateral talks over ongoing border issues on Tuesday, North Korean state media outlet Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Liu Zhenmin, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and his DPRK counterpart Pak Myong Guk attended the third meeting of “the Korea-China Border Joint Commission.”

“Discussed at the meeting were issues arising in the work of border relations since the Second Meeting of the Commission and issues of building new border bridges and setting up new border passing spots in the future,” KCNA reported.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when asked whether the meeting was related to