- Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first trip to North Korea in seven years and said he and Kim Jong Un reached an "important consensus" to deepen bilateral ties.
- They agreed to expand cooperation across politics, the economy and culture, pledged closer strategic communication, and framed relations as entering a "new historical stage" aimed at safeguarding regional/global peace.
- The visit included symbolic gestures — paying tribute at the Sino‑Korean Friendship Tower and touring a party training school — underscoring warmer, more public ties.
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