Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) will visit North Korea next week, state media from both countries reported Friday. This photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Xi shaking hands during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in September 2025. File Photo by KNCA/EPA
SEOUL, June 5 (UPI) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea next week, state media in both countries reported Friday, marking his first trip to the isolated state since 2019.
Xi will make the visit on June 8-9 at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency also reported the upcoming trip, but neither outlet provided further details.
The trip will be Xi's second to North Korea. He last made a two-day state visit in June 2019.
It comes amid a stretch of renewed high-level engagement between the longtime allies. Kim traveled to Beijing in September for a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, where he held summit talks with Xi.
