A train carrying the North Korean leader Kim Jong One went to China early Tuesday, South Korea Yonhap reported the news agency, citing the North State Radio service.
It is a rare journey outside North Korea for Kim, which is one of the 26 heads of state planned to attend a military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan during the Second World War.
If this takes place as planned, the diplomatic foray will mark the first time that Kim, the Vladmir Putin of Russia and the Chinese Xi Jinping appear during the same event.
On Monday, XI and Putin turned into turn in the West during a rally of Eurasian leaders in Tianjin, just south of Beijing.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) presents itself as a style of non -Western collaboration between 10 countries in the region and seeks to be an alternative to traditional alliances.
Kim’s future presence “formalizes China-Russia-North Trilateral North Kids (Relation) with the public,” said Soo Kim, consultant in geopolitical risk and former CIA analyst, said AFP.
Kim experienced a brief high-level international diplomacy fight around 2018, meeting US President Donald Trump several times, then South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
But he withdrew from the world scene after the collapse of a summit with Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2019.
Kim stayed in North Korea throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but met Putin in the Far East in Russia in 2023.
