Xi Jinping set for North Korea visit next week, first since 2019 amid geopolitical strains
Beijing's latest diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang comes as North Korea balances ties with both China and Russia while expanding its nuclear capabilities.
Beijing's latest diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang comes as North Korea balances ties with both China and Russia while expanding its nuclear capabilities.
Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc.
Over 70 per cent of North Korea’s lawmakers have been replaced after the latest vote, signalling a major internal reshuffle as the country prepares for key political decisions.
Trump has a rapport with North Korean dictator, or so he likes to think. US Prez wants to meet him to put China in its place and push Japan to fund Golden Dome interceptor system since war with Iran has degraded its own stockpile of missiles.
While the world worries about missiles and military strikes, the internet has found a strange way to cope. And somehow, Kim Jong Un has become the star of the meme show.
Kim’s health matters in Seoul, Washington, Tokyo, and other world capitals because he hasn’t publicly anointed a successor who would control an advancing nuclear program targeting the United States and its allies — if he is incapacitated.
Kim also made “sharp criticism of inattention, onlooking and chronic attitude getting prevalent among officials, and violation of the rules of the emergency anti-epidemic work as this work takes on a protracted character”.
Kim's visit marks the second of its kind since he became leader in 2011, following the inspection of North Hamgyong province that was hit by a flood in 2015.
Pyongyang insists that it needs its nuclear arsenal to deter against a possible US invasion.
The North Korean leader last presided over a Central Military Commission meeting in December 2019.
