{"id":530,"date":"2026-06-05T04:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:10:22","slug":"chinese-leader-xi-jinping-will-travel-to-north-korea-next-week-in-first-visit-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week in first visit since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to <span>North Korea<\/span> next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first visit in nearly seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=528\">In public letter, Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskyy calls on Putin for direct negotiations in a neutral country<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His trip will the latest in a series of steps by China to reinforce its close ties with its nuclear-armed neighbor, whose leader Kim Jong Un has reached out to Russia in recent years, notably by <span>sending troops<\/span> and conventional weapons to support its war against Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Kim has likewise been cozying up again to China, the North\u2019s biggest trade partner and aid provider, in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs North Korea builds closer ties with Russia, China seeks to use Xi\u2019s trip to reassert its influence over Pyongyang and safeguard its strategic interests in northeast Asia,\u201d said William Yang, an analyst for the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n<p>Xi will make a state visit from Monday to Tuesday, state media from both nations said in brief dispatches. His <span>last visit<\/span> was in June 2019. <\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The trip will come just weeks <span>after Xi hosted<\/span> U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in quick succession in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program has long been a major concern for the United States, which opposes it. The U.N. has imposed economic sanctions on North Korea because of its nuclear and missile development.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the trip came a day after North Korea <span>unveiled a new facility<\/span> to produce the ingredients for nuclear bombs. South Korea\u2019s military has assessed the new nuclear facility as a uranium enrichment plant.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<!-- AP \"Read More\" embed (place mid-article) --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a visit to the plant, Kim announced plans to bolster the country\u2019s nuclear forces \u201cat an exponential rate.\u201d Experts say the plant\u2019s disclosure implies that Kim was eager to cement his country\u2019s status as a nuclear weapons state ahead of Xi\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<p>The experts say Kim wants international recognition as a nuclear state so that he can demand the lifting of the sanctions. They say Kim would ultimately push for arms reductions talks with the U.S. to win concessions in return for a partial surrender of his nuclear capability.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=526\">House poised to pass Ukraine aid over the objections of Republican leaders<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kim has been focusing on expanding his nuclear arsenal since his high-stakes diplomacy with Trump collapsed in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to restore diplomacy with Kim, but the North Korean leader has said the U.S. must first drop its demand for North Korea to denuclearize as a precondition for talks.<\/p>\n<p>Xi and Kim met in Beijing in September and pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation. Kim was in the Chinese capital to attend a Chinese military parade alongside other foreign leaders including Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and China, both veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, have previously frustrated the U.S. and others\u2019 efforts to toughen international sanctions on North Korea, despite its banned weapons tests.<\/p>\n<p>At their meeting in Beijing last month, <span>Putin and Xi<\/span> expressed their opposition to \u201cforeign policy isolation, economic sanctions, military pressure and other methods of creating threats to the security\u201d of North Korea, according to a statement from the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Embracing the ideas of a \u201cnew Cold War\u201d and a multipolar world, Kim has pushed for a more assertive foreign policy by expanding ties with countries locked in confrontations with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Xi, who traveled widely in his first years in power, has <span>curtailed his international trips<\/span> sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic. His last overseas trip was to South Korea last fall for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, where he talked with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writer Simina Mistreanu contributed from Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=524\">What to know about the deal between Israel and Lebanon extending their shaky ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week in what will be his first visit in years. His trip will the latest in a series of steps by China to reinforce its close ties with its nuclear-armed neighbor, whose leader Kim Jong Un has reached out to Russia in recent years, notably by sending troops and conventional weapons to support its war against Ukraine. The announcement was made by both countries Friday a day after North Korea unveiled a new facility to produce nuclear fuel. Experts say the plant\u2019s disclosure implies that Kim is eager to cement his country\u2019s status as a nuclear weapons state ahead of Xi\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week in first visit since 2019 - Top Moving Pros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=530\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week in first visit since 2019 - Top Moving Pros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week in what will be his first visit in years. 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