State leader to visit DPRK in two weeks

Vice-President Xi Jinping will pay a goodwill visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in two weeks' time, announced Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang yesterday.

The three-day visit, beginning on June 17, is at the invitation of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government.

It will be Xi's first overseas trip after being elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in March.