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What to know about a rare visit by China's Xi to North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years, offering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy anchored by closer ties with his country’s former Cold...

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According to ABC News’s source item, What to know about a rare visit by China’s Xi to North Korea for talks with Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is traveling to North Korea for the first time in nearly seven years, offering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy anchored by closer ties with his country’s former Cold…

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