First visit of a Chinese president to North Korea in 14 years

Chinese President Xi Jinping was received today in Pyongyang by hundreds of thousands of people lined up on the streets of the capital and all the pomp required to influence the importance that the regime of North Korea gives to the first visit of a head of state of the country neighbor since the similar journey that Hu Jintao made in October 2005.

With that style typical of the propaganda media, the Chinese agency Xinhua, described the scene of the arrival of the head of state - who travels accompanied by his wife and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi - who said he was welcomed by 10,000 people had concentrated only on the capital's airport, "waving flowers, singing happy slogans to welcome the Chinese guests" and throwing "thundering cheers."

Own Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju, were waiting at the foot of the steps of the presidential plane. Xi Jinping was greeted with a salvo of 21 guns and then transferred to the nearby city of Pyongyang in a convertible vehicle, acclaimed by the crowd.

The main newspaper of the country, Rodong Sinmun, dedicated his editorial to a text in which he did not save the president's loas. "Our people are proud of having a close and trustworthy friend like the Chinese people," the letter read.

According to analysts, Xi Jinping intends to coordinate his stance with Pyongyang against Washington, especially now that the two countries are united in a struggle with the administration of Donald Trump, on the eve of the appointment between the Chinese and US head of state. at the G20 summit.

Xi Jinping published on Wednesday an unusual article in the aforementioned Rodong Sinmun , in which he expressed his explicit support for Pyongyang and said he is willing to design "a great plan jointly with North Korea to achieve a permanent peace in the region."

The text signed by the Chinese head of state added that "whatever happens on the international scene, China will strongly support President Kim Jong Un to lead the North Korean party and people to implement its new strategic line."

Russia has already warned by mouth of one of its representatives that if negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang continue to be blocked as they have been until now, the Peninsula could see a worsening of tension next year. "There is no doubt, in 2020 we will witness an escalation of the situation if the State Department (of the US) does not convince Pyongyang of the seriousness of its intentions to improve its relations with North Korea," said Alexander Venediktov, deputy secretary of the Council. of Russian Security.

For his part, the US special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, said on Wednesday that his country had not raised any preconditions to resume the dialogue but repeated that there will be "not enough progress without significant steps verifiable denuclearization "of the Asian state, something that Pyongyang rejects without parallelizing the international embargo it faces.