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Seoul (EFE) .- The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un visited a border region with China as reported today by the regime [19659002]in what is interpreted as a gesture to strengthen economic cooperation with Beijing .
The leader made one of his famous field visits to a sugar farm in Sindo County, in the northeastern province of Pyongan, on the border of China's Liaoning Province, according to the official KCNA news agency
This is an area rarely visited by the regime's dome, which is also home to the island of Hwangkumpyong, the epicenter of a joint economic project between the two countries frozen after the 2013 execution of the political uncle of North Korean leader Jang. Song-thaek, a figure very close to Beijing.
This island located on the river Yalu which flows between the two countries, was to host a special economic zone for trade in goods.
Among the people who accompanied Kim, during his visit to Sindo, was the first deputy director of the international department of the Workers' Party, Kim Song-nam, considered as the person responsible for relations with China within of the only North Korean formation
Therefore, the visit appears to imply a new nod of Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jimping, with whom he has met three times this year, highlighting a significant improvement in ties after a tense relationship five years after the escalation of tension last year against Pyongyang's continuous weapons testing, Beijing – its main trading partner – implemented the UN sanctions against the North Korean regime, while urging them to lift them after the turnaround. diplomat for whom Kim Jong-un bet
Since the beginning of the year, the young North Korean leader has met twice with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and another with the American President Donald Trump. who signed two declarations pledging to work to achieve the "total denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula.
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