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# Chinese President Xi Jinping may visit North Korea next week: report
- URL: https://tsrv2.apphq.dev/world/chinese-president-xi-jinping-may-visit-north-korea-next-week-report/
- Published: 2026-05-21T06:35:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:41:41.000Z
- Description: SEOUL, May 21 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping may visit North Korea as early as ​next week and will try to act as a mediator ‌between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, quoting a senior government official. Another…
- Author: Liam Demafelix
- Tags: World, News

SEOUL, May 21 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping may visit North Korea as early as ​next week and will try to act as a mediator ‌between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, quoting a senior government official.

Another government ​source was cited by Yonhap as saying a team ​of Chinese security service and protocol officials was in Pyongyang recently ⁠and that a visit by Xi late in May ​or early June was likely.

Xi, who hosted Trump last week, will try ​to act as a mediator between Trump and North Korea’s Kim, the senior official was quoted as saying in the report released late on ​Wednesday.

Trump, who met Kim three times in his first ​term to negotiate the North’s nuclear programme, has said he would be open ‌to ⁠meeting the North Korean leader again and that he had a good relationship with him.

South Korea’s foreign ministry said the government hopes exchanges between North Korea and China contribute to ​peace and stability ​on the ⁠Korean peninsula and that China can play a constructive role, while declining to comment directly on ​the report of Xi’s visit.

China is a ​key economic ⁠and political ally of North Korea and the two have made efforts to reinforce ties that had cooled during the COVID-19 ⁠pandemic.

North ​Korean leader Kim visited Beijing last year ​and stood alongside Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a major military ​parade. ***— Reuters***