Chinese President Xi Jinping recently traveled to North Korea for the first time in seven years and held a summit with leader Kim Jong Un.The trip should not be seen as an ordinary visit between socialist leaders; rather, it marked a key moment in which North Korea leveraged its honeymoon relationship with Russia to draw China in and expanded its own political and diplomatic room for maneuver.Pyongyang has fully backed the Russian administration of President Vladimir Putin since immediately after the launch of its invasion of Ukraine, rapidly deepening ties not only militarily but also econ…READ FULL ARTICLE
