Asia, Trump and China
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China's Premier Li Qiang plans to visit North Korea this week, marking the highest-level Chinese visit since 2019.
Though a meeting with Trump would look good for Kim, the North Korean leader’s focus is on alliances with China and Russia, analysts say.
Tensions with the U.S. have risen after Trump threatened new tariffs in response to Beijing's restrictions on rare earth exports.
U.S. allies worry that American volatility and Russian outreach and arms sales, in particular, are driving Vietnam into a new phase.
China recently issued internal guidelines classifying North Korean defectors living in the country as potential national security risks.
Korea JoongAng Daily on MSN
North Korea-China trade reaches highest level in 6 years
Trade between North Korea and China has surged to its highest level in six years, signaling a warming of bilateral ties.
North Korea has turned deception into strategy, weaponizing ambiguity to mask nuclear progress. Its success reveals how bureaucratic inertia within US intelligence creates blind spots.
Hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, the report found.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during talks in the Kremlin on Monday to tell his country's leader Kim Jong Un that everything was "going to plan" in bilateral relations.