Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to deepen strategic cooperation and expand bilateral ties during a summit in Pyongyang. The leaders pledged closer coordination on security and diplomacy, with Kim reaffirming support for Beijing\u2019s One China policy.<\/p>\n
North Korean leader Strengthen strategic cooperation and ties<\/p>\n The two leaders agreed to develop bilateral relations into a new chapter, KCNA said.<\/p>\n Kim told Xi that he would fully support the \u201cOne China principle,\u201d which Beijing views as meaning both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one country, regardless of how the international situation changes.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n Xi said the two countries should strengthen strategic cooperation and firmly safeguard their respective sovereignty and security interests, according to the report.<\/p>\n Xi arrived at Pyongyang\u2019s main square on Monday, where a military honor guard and thousands of people, including children carrying balloons and hopping, staged a welcoming ceremony.<\/p>\n Xi\u2019s first visit to North Korea in 7 years<\/p>\n Xi made his first visit to North Korea in seven years<\/a>, where he was greeted by Kim and his wife Ri Sol Ju at Pyongyang\u2019s international airport.<\/p>\n Xi and Kim last met in Beijing in September, after viewing a military parade alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders.<\/p>\n Deepen trade<\/p>\n The two leaders also agreed to deepen strategic communication between the two countries through visits by high-level officials, KCNA added.<\/p>\n Xi will try to demonstrate China\u2019s \u201csway over the Korean Peninsula\u201d and \u201ca leadership role in entire Northeast Asia in the age of strategic competition with the U.S.,\u201d said Kwak Gil Sup, the head of One Korea Center, a website specializing in North Korea affairs.<\/p>\n The North Korean media did not mention whether the leaders discussed Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear weapons program or not.<\/p>\n First Published: Home<\/a>World<\/a>Kim and Xi agree to expand cooperation and deepen strategic ties during Pyongyang SummitEnd of Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to deepen strategic cooperation and expand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26545,27369,26851,27362,16956,16550,27371,141,4451,27364,5280,34,4441,27368,26549,27363,129,27366,26284,26748,27365,1334,27370,16533,27367,25498],"class_list":["post-46365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pyongyang","tag-china-foreign-policy","tag-china-news","tag-china-north-korea-alliance","tag-china-north-korea-cooperation","tag-china-north-korea-relations","tag-china-north-korea-ties","tag-east-asia-politics","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-kim-jong-un-latest","tag-kim-jong-un-xi-jinping-meeting","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-diplomacy","tag-north-korea-news","tag-northeast-asia-geopolitics","tag-one-china-policy","tag-pyongyang","tag-pyongyang-news","tag-pyongyang-summit","tag-regional-security-asia","tag-strategic-cooperation","tag-xi-jinping","tag-xi-jinping-latest","tag-xi-jinping-north-korea-visit","tag-xi-jinping-visit-to-pyongyang","tag-xi-kim-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46365","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=46365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKim Jong Un and China’s Xi Jinping<\/a> agreed to expand cooperation and strengthen ties between the two countries in various sectors in a closely watched summit on Monday in Pyongyang, North Korea\u2019s state media KCNA said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nJune 09, 2026, 05:46 IST<\/p>\n