Top man to DPRK takes charge

Beijing - Liu Hongcai, who was earlier in the year appointed as the ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), arrived in Pyongyang last week to take up his duties, according to Foreign Ministry.

Liu, born in Liaoning province in 1955, studied Japanese at university, and graduated from the Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute in 1975.

He started working for the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee the same year.