{"id":24616,"date":"2026-05-21T04:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/24616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:20:15","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-expected-to-visit-north-korea-as-early-as-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/24616\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi Jinping expected to visit North Korea as early as next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Xi Jinping is expected to visit North Korea<\/a> as early as next week, Yonhap news agency has reported, as Beijing and Pyongyang\u2019s long-standing ties have grown warmer in recent months.\u201cWe have obtained intelligence indicating that President Xi Jinping<\/a> will visit North Korea soon,\u201d the South Korean agency said, citing a government source.<\/p>\n

Another government official told Yonhap that Xi might visit North Korea later this month or early next month. A separate source said the Chinese leader could seek to mediate relations between North Korea and the United States, it said.<\/p>\n

The expected trip to Pyongyang comes after Foreign Minister Wang Yi travelled to the North Korean capital last month<\/a>, meeting not only its top diplomat Choe Son-hui but also the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n

At that time, Wang said that Beijing and Pyongyang should defend their respective security and development interests and strengthen coordination in major global issues amid a turbulent international situation.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Xi hails \u2018fruitful\u2019 talks with Russia\u2019s Putin #xitrumpsummit<\/p>\n

The Yonhap report follows Xi\u2019s recent back-to-back summits with US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Next week, Serbia\u2019s president, Aleksandar Vucic, is scheduled to visit China from May 24 to 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Xi Jinping is expected to visit North Korea as early as next week, Yonhap news agency has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136,134,11570,74,141,31,5280,34,129,137,444,1797,1257,1334,5220],"class_list":["post-24616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-choe-son-hui","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-wang-yi","tag-xi-jinping","tag-yonhap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}