BEIJING
China’s President Xi Jinping met with North Korea’s Premier Pak Thae Song in Beijing on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Pak arrived in Beijing earlier on Friday for a three-day visit and will attend an event marking the 65th anniversary of the neighbours’ friendship treaty, Beijing said. The visit comes a month after Xi travelled to Pyongyang for his first visit to North Korea in seven years, where he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to expand cooperation across politics, economy and culture. Signed on July 11, 1961, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance remains China’s only active mutual defence pact.