Premier of DPRK cabinet to visit China

BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Pak Thae Song, Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), will lead a party and government delegation to China to pay an official visit from July 10 to 12, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Thursday.

Pak will also attend the commemorative event of the 65th anniversary of the China-DPRK Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, the spokesperson said.

Pak, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Vice President of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, will make the trip at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the government of the People's Republic of China, according to the spokesperson.