It's actually more than that, it means that they plan on increasing bilateral trade and economic ties in a massive way such that the old sanctions will become increasingly obsolete as they will simply develop more and more ways of circumventing them.

In effect the sanctions will still be there (because it's virtually impossible to lift Security Council sanctions ever as the West has veto power) but they will be an empty formality. Make no mistake, these developments that we're seeing are HUGE.

Announcing this now though, is an indication of intentions. And the intentions are probably to raise trade with DPRK as a first stage. There's also a possibility that DPRK might attempt to join BRICS for trading.

It is worth noting that even as China went along with sanctions, they were arguing for a gentler approach and I think successfully derailed a couple of escalation attempts by the US. They were probably scared of being pushed away from western Bloc countries if they sided too hard with the DPRK, however unjust that treatment of True Korea is.

Even still, kinda odd that China would follow the sanctions on a neighboring country that is friendly to them. Glad to hear that things are changing

Yeah, I think that China wasn't very pleased with the DPRK conducting nuclear tests and potentially harming Chinese soil and people. This isn't an issue anymore, though.

China and Russia are on the security council, and could have vetoed them

OH NO, THEY WERE SITTING IN ROWS, THIS IS FASCIST, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DISORGANIZED AND THEY SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS JUST LIKE IN THE UNITED SHITHOLE STATES OF AMERICA!

That kid: