Revision History

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on June 8 for a two-day state visit — his first trip abroad in 2026 and his first to North Korea since 2019 — as Beijing seeks to reassert influence over an ally that has drifted toward Moscow. The summit comes amid rising trade between China and North Korea, a crumbling UN sanctions regime, and an accelerating arms buildup across East Asia, with implications stretching from Taiwan to the Korean Peninsula to global nonproliferation efforts.