Why is Xi Jinping, who has been avoiding foreign trips, suddenly going to North Korea?

Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit North Korea on June 8 and 9. The eyes of the whole world are currently focused on Jinping’s visit and his meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. These two leaders had met in Beijing only last year, when the Chinese Army had organized a huge parade. But this time the special thing is that Xi Jinping himself is going to North Korea, whereas in the last few years he has reduced his foreign tours a lot. Recently, big leaders like US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin themselves came to Beijing to meet him, but this is the first time since 2019 that the Chinese President himself is visiting Pyongyang.

Why is this visit of Jinping very special?
According to a report by ‘Al Jazeera’, Crisis Group senior analyst William Yang says that Jinping no longer travels abroad much. Nowadays, it has become a trend that big leaders from all over the world come to Beijing to meet him. In such a situation, Xi Jinping going to North Korea himself shows how much importance China is giving to this trip. According to the statistics, between 2013 and 2019, Jinping used to make an average of 14 foreign visits every year, but between 2022 and 2025 this number has reduced to only six every year.
 

relations between china and north korea
If we look at it traditionally, China has always had the upper hand in the relations between China and North Korea. According to the 2022 data of ‘National Committee on North Korea’, an American organization, North Korea was 95 percent dependent on China alone for its business and trade. But since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in the year 2022, this The equations of the entire area are changing rapidly.
 

North Korea is coming closer to Russia
North Korea has openly helped Russia during the Ukraine war. It has provided Russia with dangerous weapons, cannons and even its own soldiers on a large scale, which has helped Russia a lot in this war. Since 2023, Moscow has made a huge payment of about $ 14.4 billion to North Korea in exchange for the deployment of troops, purchase of artillery, shells and ballistic missiles. This is the reason why new changes are now being seen in the politics of this region.