China will not swerve from its commitment to safeguarding common interests with North Korea or waver in its support for Kim Jong Un, President Xi Jinping told Pyongyang\u2019s leader on Monday during a rare summit.<\/p>\n
The neighbours should strengthen strategic ties and firmly protect their sovereignty, security, and development interests, Xi told Kim, an official Chinese summary of the meeting showed, as Beijing looks to draw Pyongyang closer.<\/p>\n
Xi\u2019s two-day visit, his first in seven years to China\u2019s reclusive neighbour, comes at a time when its economy, strengthened by growing trade and military ties to Russia, could boost Kim\u2019s confidence in talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply pleased and also feel a special sense of closeness,\u201d Xi told Kim on his first international trip this year.<\/p>\n
No matter how the international situation changed, he reaffirmed to Kim, China would continue to highly value its traditional friendship with North Korea, the summary showed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe firm support for Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un\u2019s leadership of the DPRK socialist cause will not change, and the firm determination to safeguard common interests and good strategic environment … will not change,\u201d Xi added.<\/p>\n
He was referring to the North\u2019s formal name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China will not swerve from its commitment to safeguarding common interests with North Korea or waver in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25804,25802,25808,25800,25799,25807,141,31,2983,18701,25796,25801,25795,34,25806,25797,25805,25803,25798],"class_list":["post-46061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-android-magazine","tag-best-magazine","tag-digital-magazines","tag-free-magazine","tag-free-magazines","tag-ipad-magazine","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-magazine","tag-magazine-subscription","tag-magazines","tag-magazines-for-smartphones","tag-magzter","tag-north-korea","tag-online-digital-magazine","tag-online-magazine","tag-online-pdf-magazine","tag-pdf-for-smartphones","tag-pdf-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061","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=46061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}