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Seoul 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 the Korea Times and Yonhap. The visit underscores deepening cooperation between Pyongyang and Beijing, following leader Kim Jong-un's own surprise trip to China in late October via a newly opened bridge, where he met a senior Chinese official in Dandong. Seoul's spy agency told lawmakers that Kim may have conveyed Pyongyang's position on potential talks with the US during that visit, the Korea Times reported on Oct. 29.