BEIJING—China’s President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea on Thursday for a two-day state visit, state media said, in what would be the first such visit by a Chinese leader in more than a decade.
Mr. Xi will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss bilateral relations, as well as efforts to resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula, state broadcaster China Central Television said in its Monday evening newscast.
The visit will “inject new momentum” in China-North Korea relations, officials from the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department said at a Monday news briefing, according to CCTV.
Mr. Xi’s visit is his first to North Korea since taking power in late 2012. It comes after Mr. Kim traveled to China four times over the past year or so—a series of trips that came at critical points in Pyongyang’s diplomatic maneuvering with the U.S. and South Korea.
The previous visit by a Chinese leader to North Korea took place in 2005, when President Hu Jintao traveled to Pyongyang to meet his counterpart, Kim Jong Il.
Write to Chun Han Wong at chunhan.wong@wsj.com
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