North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first in-person talks in six years, with the two agreeing to support one another “no matter how the international situation may change” before Kim departed for Pyongyang late Thursday.
Meeting in Beijing a day after Kim joined Xi on Wednesday for a massive military parade through the heart of the Chinese capital to mark 80 years since Japan’s defeat in World War II, the two leaders looked to firm up a relationship that had taken a back seat to Pyongyang’s closer ties with Moscow.
Kim told Xi that “the friendly feelings” between the two countries “can not change no matter how the international situation may change” and that North Korea will “steadily develop” the relationship and “invariably support” China in defending “the sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests of the state,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
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