Chinese president Xi Jinping is expected to travel to North Korea as early as next week to meet leader Kim Jong-un, following a tightly sequenced round of high-profile summits in Beijing that included visits by US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The prospective trip would come days after Xi met Trump in Beijing on May 14–15 and welcomed Putin shortly afterward, underscoring Beijing’s growing diplomatic activity amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing government sources, that Xi could travel to Pyongyang next week or in early June, though no official confirmation has been issued.
