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Kim Jong Un's Special Envoy Flies Back from China

Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, came back here by special plane Friday after visiting the People's Republic of China as a special envoy of Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Arriving together with the special envoy were his party: KPA Col. Gen. Ri Yong Gil; Kim Song Nam, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee; Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs; KPA Lieut. Gen. Kim Su Gil; and other officials concerned.

They were greeted at the airport by Kim Kyok Sik, chief of the KPA General Staff, Kim Yong Il, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, KPA Col. Gen. Son Chol Ju, Ri Yong Chol, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Kil Yon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned and Liu Hongcai, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

The special envoy and his party left Beijing Friday.

They were seen off at the airport by Liu Jieyi, deputy head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and officials concerned and Ji Jae Ryong, DPRK ambassador to China.