{"id":2530,"date":"2019-06-22T02:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T06:28:02","slug":"chinese-president-xi-jinping-is-to-visit-north-korea-before-the-g20-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/chinese-president-xi-jinping-is-to-visit-north-korea-before-the-g20-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping is to visit North Korea before the G20 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/strong>\u00a0is to visit North Korea for<strong>\u00a0two days on 20 June.<\/strong>He the<strong>\u00a0first Chinese leader<\/strong>\u00a0to visit the reclusive country in<strong>\u00a014 years.<\/strong>\u00a0The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited <strong>the Chinese President<\/strong>\u00a0for t a visit.<br> <br> <strong>Chinese President&#8217;s visit:<\/strong><br> The visit by Mr. Xi to Pyongyang had long been expected within diplomatic circles. The last Chinese leader&#8217;s visit North Korea was<strong>\u00a0in 2005 by Hu Jintao.<\/strong>\u00a0The year 2019 marks the<strong>\u00a070th year since China and North Korea<\/strong>\u00a0established\u00a0<strong>diplomatic ties.<\/strong><br> Mr. Kim has visited China<strong>\u00a0four times since March 2018.<\/strong><br> The countries will exchange views on the Korean peninsula situation, and push for new progress in the political resolution of the peninsula issue. It can be understood that Xi could now use North Korea as leverage in talks with Trump.<br> <br> <strong>China-North Korea relationship:<\/strong><br> <strong>China<\/strong>\u00a0is the lone<strong>\u00a0major ally of North Korea<\/strong>. North Korea and China have been working togethe<strong>r to improve relations since 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0after they deteriorated as Beijing backed a series of UN sanctions against its Cold War-era ally over its nuclear activities.<br> The visit comes amid renewed tensions between the United States and North Korea over efforts to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. Pyongyang has resumed some weapons tests and<strong>warned of truly undesired consequences<\/strong>\u00a0if the\u00a0<strong>United States is not more flexible.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping\u00a0is to visit North Korea for\u00a0two days on 20 June.He the\u00a0first Chinese leader\u00a0to visit the reclusive country in\u00a014 years.\u00a0The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited the Chinese President\u00a0for t a visit. Chinese President&#8217;s visit: The visit by Mr. Xi to Pyongyang had long been expected within diplomatic circles. The last Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}