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China’s Xi lands in North Korea for Kim meeting

Financial Times · Jun 8, 2026, 3:26 AM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Chinese leader’s first trip to Pyongyang in 7 years comes as regime has stepped up rhetoric of nuclear expansion

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