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Kim Jong Un's Special Envoy Leaves for China
Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and director of the KPA General Political Bureau, left here on Wednesday by special plane to visit 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.

He was accompanied by 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.

The special envoy and his party were seen off 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.

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