North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit this week that reasserted China’s role in the denuclearisation process ahead of an expected second summit between Kim and his US counterpart Donald Trump
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong-un firm backing in deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States, insisting the two sides should meet “halfway”, Chinese state media said on Thursday.
Kim visited Beijing this week for two days of talks that reasserted China’s role in the process, and were seen as a strategy session ahead of an expected second summit between the North Korean leader and US President Donald Trump.
At their first meeting in Singapore in June, Kim and Trump signed a vaguely worded document with Kim pledging to work towards the “denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.”
But progress has since stalled with Pyongyang and…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
