Xi to pay state visit to DPRK

President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from Thursday to Friday, Hu Zhaoming, spokesman of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee said on Monday.

Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was invited by Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, Hu said.