Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un met for talks in Beijing on Thursday, state media reported, while the North Korean leader is in China on a rare foreign visit.<\/p>\n
Kim and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi at a massive parade of Chinese military might on Wednesday in Beijing, where underwater drones, massive missiles and laser weapons were showcased to the foreign leaders.<\/p>\n
China is North Korea’s most important ally, their relationship forged in the bloodshed of the Korean War in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
Chinese state media said Kim and Xi met for talks in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n
China’s foreign ministry said earlier the talks would be “an in-depth exchange of views on China-DPRK relations and issues of common concern”, using the acronym for North Korea.<\/p>\n
“China is willing to work with the DPRK to strengthen strategic communication… (and) deepen the exchange of experience in governance,” spokesman Guo Jiakun said.<\/p>\n
Kim arrived in Beijing on Tuesday accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju Ae, his second reported trip abroad in six years and his first to China since 2019.<\/p>\n
His attendance at the parade was the first time he was seen with Xi and Putin at the same event.<\/p>\n
Kim enjoyed a brief bout of high-profile international diplomacy from around 2018, meeting US President Donald Trump and then South Korean president Moon Jae-in several times.<\/p>\n
However, he withdrew from the global scene after the collapse of a summit with Trump in Hanoi in 2019.<\/p>\n
Beijing has historically provided diplomatic, economic and political support to the secretive North, which remains under crippling international sanctions.<\/p>\n
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