North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an unannounced visit to China Monday and Tuesday to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Dalian.
Xi said he “speak[s] highly of” the second visit to China by Kim in the past two months, and it comes at a time when the Korean peninsula in undergoing complex changes, Chinese media outlet Xinhuanet reported.
After the meeting was announced, President Trump tweeted that he would be talking with Xi at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning regarding trade and the developing relations with North Korea.
Kim traveled outside North Korea in March for the first time since becoming leader in 2011, and did so suddenly and in secret to meet with Xi in China.
Last month, Kim also crossed the Demilitarized Zone into South Korea to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a summit to discuss denuclearization of the peninsula and declare the official end of the ongoing Korean War.
“Comrade General Secretary and I have carried on this fine tradition to hold the historic meeting with fruitful outcomes, and promoted the unprecedentedly vigorous development of the DPRK-China relations,” Kim said, according to Xinhuanet.
