{"id":50829,"date":"2024-04-12T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50829"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:51:05","slug":"chinas-top-legislator-meets-senior-n-korea-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50829","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s top legislator meets senior N. Korea official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China&#8217;s top legislator met with a senior North Korean official for talks on cooperation during a visit to Pyongyang this week, North Korean state media said Friday, in one of the most high-level meetings between the allies in years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s third highest-ranking official Zhao Leji &#8212; a member of the powerful Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s Politburo &#8212; is on a goodwill visit to the nuclear-armed North as the two countries mark 75 years of diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p>China is North Korea&#8217;s most important economic benefactor and diplomatic ally, obstructing US-led efforts at the UN Security Council alongside Russia to impose stricter sanctions on Kim Jong Un&#8217;s regime in response to its increased weapons tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s top legislator met with a senior North Korean official for talks on cooperation during a visit to Pyongyang this week, North Korean state media said Friday, in one of the most high-level meetings between the allies in years. Beijing&#8217;s third highest-ranking official Zhao Leji &#8212; a member of the powerful Standing Committee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1118],"class_list":["post-50829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-chinas-top-legislator-meets-senior-n-korea-official"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}