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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

North Korea, China claim wins from Xi visit, but limits remain

SEOUL/BEIJING: North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit this week to the isolated state, which helped ​elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's global stature and pulled ​Pyongyang more tightly into China's orbit.

The two countries each lavished the other with praise and spoke of deeper cooperation during the two-day trip, ​which saw Kim greet Xi with a 21-gun salute as well as a performance of Chinese and North Korean songs and avoided discussion of thornier issues such as denuclearisation and the United States.

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