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The official purpose of Mr Kim’s latest visit was to commemorate China’s entry into the Korean War in 1950 to support the Communist North. China and North Korea are playing up their wartime solidarity. This year is the 65th anniversary of their “friendship” treaty, a mutual-defence pact. Still, it is rare for Mr Kim to acknowledge China’s war effort so prominently on Chinese soil. He was also strikingly effusive about the relationship, hailing bilateral ties “forged in blood”. It was unusual, too, for Mr Kim to show up in China without seeing its leader, Xi Jinping. The pair met in…
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