The Daily Guardian
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June 08, 2026
China’s Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years in a trip that offers North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy anchored by closer ties with his country’s former Cold War allies.
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China, the North’s economic pipeline, is expected to reassert its influence over a traditionally allied government that has grown closer to Russia in recent times.
The meeting between the two leaders is their first since Kim traveled to Beijing for a World War II event in September 2025.
Here is a look at what they may be seeking from their upcoming meeting:
After years of prioritizing Russia — dispatching thousands of troops and munitions to support Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine — North Korea’s leader is now seeking stronger ties with China to break further out of isolation, embracing the idea of a “new Cold War” and projecting Pyongyang as part of a united front against Washington.
This story is from the June 08, 2026 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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