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Chinese President Xi to North Korea prior to G20 conference

Xi heads to North Korea as fate of US nuclear deal still up in the air, Analysis by Joshua Berlinger, CNN, June 19, 2019 Hong Kong (CNN     )More than 15 months after Kim Jong Un traveled to Beijing and invited the Chinese President to visit Pyongyang, Xi Jinping is finally heading to the North Korean capital for a two-day state visit this week.

It’s the first visit by a Chinese leader to North Korea in 14 years, and analysts say the timing is no coincidence. Next week will see Xi and the leaders of the United States, Russia and South Korea all travel to Japan for the G20.
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to meet Xi on the sidelines of that summit, where the two will likely discuss the ongoing trade war and negotiations with North Korea, which have been at a standstill since Trump and Kim’s last summit in Hanoi ended abruptly without a deal.
Though Trump says he’s in “no rush” to reach an agreement with Kim to cement one of his signature foreign policy goals, the clock is ticking. Kim said in an important policy speech in April that he will give the US until the end of the year to show more flexibility in the nuclear talks, and Trump has begun gearing up for the 2020 election which could see him leave office.
Kim sent a letter to Trump earlier this month, the arrival of which appears to have prompted Tump to take a more optimistic stance on the possibility of future talks…….. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/asia/xi-jinping-north-korea-visit-hnk-intl/index.html

June 20, 2019 - Posted by | China, North Korea, politics international

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