The trip to Pyongyang comes weeks after the Chinese leader hosted the Russian and US presidents in Beijing
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to North Korea next week at the invitation of the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, Chinese and North Korean state media reported on Friday.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 8-9, Xinhua said. KCNA carried a similar announcement, saying Xi will visit at the invitation of Kim, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK.
Neither Xinhua nor KCNA immediately provided details on the agenda of the visit.
Xi last visited Pyongyang in 2019, while Kim was in Beijing last September – joining Russian President Vladimir Putin at a military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s defeat in World War II.
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