North Korea and China leaders agree to boost ties at Pyongyang summit

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SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China’s Xi Jinping held a summit on June 8 in Pyongyang and agreed to expand cooperation between the two countries in various sectors, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said on June 9. The two leaders agreed to develop bilateral relations into a new chapter, KCNA said. Kim told Xi that he would fully support the “One China principle”, which Beijing views as meaning both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one country, regardless of how the international situation changes, according to KCNA. Xi, making his first visit to North…

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