North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has met with a visiting ranking Cuban official in a show of the two countries' friendly relations, the North's media said Tuesday.

Kim has met with a Cuban delegation in Pyongyang, led by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and first vice-president of the Council of State, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

The delegation's visit to the North is "of weighty significance" in instilling the history and tradition of the friendship between the two countries and further developing their fraternal relations, the KCNA said.

"The invincible vitality of the DPRK-Cuba friendship would be more dynamically demonstrated in the future, too, thanks to the efforts of both sides," Kim was quoted as saying by the KCNA.

The DPRK is the acronym of North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Cuba.

This is the first time Kim has met with a foreign delegation since July 2013. Since taking power in late 2011, the North's leader has met with visiting foreign officials five times, including the Cuban delegation.

The KCNA also said that Kim and the Cuban delegation have watched an art performance by the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus.

The Moranbong Band, an all-female music band in North Korea, has reappeared in the public eye after not being shown on the North's broadcasts since July.

Kim's meeting and the art performance are seen as showing off the North's friendly ties with Cuba at a time when Cuba and the United States have recently restored their diplomatic relations, which had been severed in 1961.

Cuba is one of a handful of countries with friendly ties with North Korea. (Yonhap)