The North Korean chief is about to attend a army parade alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Printed On 2 Sep 2025
North Korean chief Kim Jong Un’s prepare has crossed the border into China forward of his deliberate attendance at a army parade marking Japan’s give up in World Conflict II, state media have reported.
Kim is amongst 26 world leaders scheduled to attend Wednesday’s parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the tip of the second world conflict.
The occasion in Beijing is about to be the primary time that Kim, Chinese language President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have gathered on the identical venue.
Kim’s prepare crossed the North Korea-China border within the early hours of Tuesday morning, the state-controlled Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported.
“Key senior officers from the Central Committee of the Employees’ Social gathering of Korea and the federal government of the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea are accompanying Comrade Kim Jong Un on his go to to the Individuals’s Republic of China,” the Rodong Sinmun mentioned, utilizing North Korea’s official identify.
Kim’s go to to China comes on the heels of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in China’s Tianjin, at which Xi and Putin took turns criticising Western dominance of the worldwide order.
One of many world’s most remoted states, North Korea has lengthy relied on China and Russia for financial and diplomatic help.
Pyongyang has grown particularly shut with Moscow lately, sending 1000’s of troops to help Putin’s conflict in Ukraine.
Kim, who hardly ever travels overseas, has met Xi 5 instances since coming to energy in 2011, most not too long ago in 2019, when the North Korean chief attended an occasion commemorating the seventieth anniversary of China-North Korea relations.
Kim has met Putin 3 times, most not too long ago in June 2024, when the 2 leaders signed a mutual defence treaty in Pyongyang.
