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Kim Jong-un’s visit to China
March 30 , 2018
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- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to denuclearise and meet U.S. officials after a historic meeting with President Xi Jinping.
- The visit was Mr. Kim’s first known trip outside North Korea since he assumed power in 2011.
- China has traditionally been secretive North Korea’s closest ally but ties have been frayed by its pursuit of nuclear weapons and China’s backing of tough UN sanctions in response.
- Kim Jong-un's predecessors, grandfather Kim Il-sung and father Kim Jong-il, both promised not to pursue nuclear weapons but secretly maintained programmes to develop them, culminating in the North's first nuclear test in 2006 under Kim Jong-Il.
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