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South Korea's government assessed that a senior North Korean ruling party official's recent visit to Beijing was intended to share the outcome of last month's key Chinese party meeting and maintain high-level exchanges between the two countries, Yonhap and the Korea Times reported on Nov. 9. The official, Kim Song-nam, a member of the Political Bureau, arrived in China on Nov. 4, met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Nov. 5, and held a third high-level meeting on Nov. 7, according to earlier reports from Yonhap and the Korea Times. The visit follows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's own trip to China on Oct. 24, when he crossed a newly opened bridge to Dandong and met Beijing's top political adviser, reaffirming economic cooperation, KBS World reported.