North Korean leader Kim Jung-un and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) adopted a “far-reaching blueprint” for bilateral ties during Xi’s recent visit to Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said yesterday.
Xi visited North Korea on Monday after hosting a series of world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Beijing.
Kim and Xi “expressed satisfaction and deep emotion over the fact that they provided a far-reaching blueprint for the development of the relations,” KCNA reported.
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During the two-day trip, “the countries further deepened the revolutionary friendship and close comradely relationship, and affirmed their steadfast will to develop the traditional DPRK-China friendly ties into a model of the most powerful and strategic relations,” it said, using an acronym of North Korea’s official name.
Xi and Kim toured the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party, where they discussed the training of party officials and planted a commemorative tree, before visiting the Friendship Tower memorial honoring Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean War.
Afterward, Xi thanked Kim in a letter, saying the leaders had “made an in-depth exchange of views on the issues of mutual interest and achieved a series of important common understanding,” KCNA reported.
The talks “showed the firm determination of both sides to add luster to the traditional friendship, promote development and prosperity together, and defend peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world,” Xi wrote.
On Tuesday, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Xi as saying that he had reached “an important consensus with Kim on developing China-DPRK relations in the new era.”
Xi pushed to improve diplomatic, law enforcement and military ties, Xinhua reported.
By sharing information in the military sector, China appears to want to “directly assess technological changes within the North Korean military and the status of Russian technology transfer,” said Hong Min, an analyst at the Seoul-based Korea Institute for National Unification.
China might also hope to “collect intelligence for the purpose of monitoring trends in pro-Russian and pro-Chinese human networks within the North Korean military,” Hong added.
Kim has drawn North Korea closer to Russia in the past few years, including by boosting an alliance with Putin by sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces against Ukraine.
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