(China's vice president Li Yuanchao)

July 25^th, according to China News, at the invitation of the North Korean side, Chinese Politburo member and Vice President Li Yuanchao will lead a Chinese delegation to visit North Korea from July 25^th to July 28^th. During the visit, Li Yuanchao will participate in commemoration activities for the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice.

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In June 2011, Li Yuanchao, who was still the head of the Chinese Communist Party's organization department, led a Chinese delegation on a friendly visit to North Korea. Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met with Li Yuanchao at that time.

In May 2013, Kim Jong-un sent his special envoy Choe Ryong Hae to Beijing. Choe Ryong Hae is a North Korea's politburo standing committee member in Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with him. Choe Ryong Hae also forwarded a Kim Jong-un's personal handwritten letter to President Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping said during the meeting with Choe Ryong Hae that denuclearization and long-lasting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula are common aspirations shared by all people in the region. North Korean should pay close attention. The friendship between China and North Korea is in keeping with the common interests of the two peoples. Chinese government wishes to work together with the North Korean side to promote a peaceful and stable development of relations between the two countries.

On June 19^th, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui of China and First Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea held the strategic dialogue between Foreign Ministries of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Beijing.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953, and was designed to insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved. It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command, and North Korean General Nam Il representing the North Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army.