China’s top diplomat to visit North Korea

Just days after the isolated country signed up to closer cooperation with its southern neighbour,
China‘s top diplomat is to visit North Korea
Foreign minister Wang Yi is due to visit Pyongyang in the wake of last week’s Panmunjom Declaration signing, in which the leaders of the two Koreas pledged to achieve “a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula through complete denuclearisation”, though without detailing specific steps.

Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in agreed to end hostile acts against each other along their tense border, establish a liaison office and resume reunions of separated families in a landmark meeting on Friday.

Negotiations with the aim of formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War were also set in motion.