AFP reports on an upcoming visit to North Korea by a top CCP official:
Wang Jiarui, head of the party’s international department, was on a “goodwill visit” at the invitation of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Xinhua news agency reported.
South Korean media said he was expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and give him a message from President Hu Jintao to help the resumption of the six-party nuclear talks China has hosted since 2003.
The Chinese Communist Party’s international department could not be contacted Saturday.
Sanctions-hit North Korea wants Washington to agree to formal peace talks as a condition for returning to the stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations, which include South Korea, China, Japan, the United States and Russia.
