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North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un has visited Beijing for his first known trip outside of North Korea since he took power in 2011:
North Korea's enigmatic young leader, Kim Jong-un, made an unannounced visit to Beijing, meeting with President Xi Jinping weeks before planned summit meetings with American and South Korean leaders, Chinese and North Korean state news media reported on Wednesday.
[...] Mr. Kim made the trip to China at the invitation of Mr. Xi, North Korea's state-run Korean Central Television reported soon after the announcement in China. Mr. Kim was accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol-ju, as well as by his senior advisers, it said.
Mr. Kim told the Chinese leader that he was open to dialogue with the United States, including a potential summit meeting with President Trump, and was committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, according to an account published by China's news agency Xinhua.
"If South Korea and the United States respond with good will to our efforts and create an atmosphere of peace and stability, and take phased, synchronized measures to achieve peace, the issue of the denuclearization of the peninsula can reach resolution," Mr. Kim said, according to Xinhua's summary of his meeting with Mr. Xi.
Experts remain cynical:
Yang Xiyu, one of China's leading experts on North Korea, said that Mr. Kim was clearly trying to repair the North's deeply strained relations with Beijing, its traditional ally and benefactor, while opening new ties with its enemy South Korea. Even so, Mr. Yang said, that did not signal that Mr. Kim was willing to give up his nuclear arsenal, though he has told South Korean envoys that he was prepared to discuss the possibility. "He is starting a new game where he could make concessions on denuclearization," Mr. Yang said. "At most, he will cut the grass, but he will not pull out the roots."
Also at Reuters and Bloomberg.
See also: How does Kim tell North Korea he's giving up nuclear weapons?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by loonycyborg on Wednesday March 28 2018, @05:11PM (2 children)
So far nuclear bombs succeeded at preventing any sort of large scale wars since WWII. And having a bomb in Korea will save many lives of Koreans since it'll discourage US and China from waging proxy wars on its territory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:48PM (1 child)
The Saudis.
Do you really want the Wahabiists with a ton of US military tech, plus a bunch of nukes so they can start their final biblical jihad against all us infidels?
NK may be a threat to a small set of regional political groups, but SA is a potential existential threat to us all, and which one of these are we buddying up to rather than antagonizing after they have already been responsible for multiple attacks on us and our allies, South Korea not withstanding?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @03:37AM
US people should be more concerned over why the US Gov keeps being such a great enemy and threat to the USA.
p..s. Your guns aren't going to help fix your government. Especially not when the government can get millions of you to go "USA! USA! USA! We must support our soldiers etc in such times" on demand.