After Trump's Beijing Trip, Xi May Now Visit North Korea Soon To Act As Mediator

Last Updated:May 21, 2026, 18:30 IST

South Korean presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, said that Xi is highly likely to visit North Korea later this month or in early June.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to visit North Korea next week to act as a mediator between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.

Yonhap news agency quoted South Korean presidential office, Cheong Wa Dae, saying that Xi is highly likely to visit North Korea later this month or in early June.

“The government is monitoring related movements," Cheong Wa Dae said. “The government hopes that exchanges between North Korea and China will take place in a way that contributes to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula."

Yonhap also reported that a summit between Pyongyang and Washington could be on the agenda in Xi’s visit.

While pointing out that Xi’s visit is yet to be confirmed, Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said that a Kim-Trump summit “will surely be discussed".

In preparation for the visit, Yonhap said, Chinese security service and protocol officials visited Pyongyang recently.

This visit will be significant as it will comes just weeks after Xi hosted US President Donald Trump. During the visit, there were speculations of whether Trump would make an unexpected stopover for another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump had met Kim three times in his first term to negotiate the latter’s nuclear programme.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un last met in 2019 at the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas, in a hastily arranged encounter that followed a public invitation the US President made on social media to “shake his hand and say hello."

That meeting came after three earlier in-person summits during Donald Trump’s first term: Singapore in 2018, Hanoi in 2019 and Panmunjom in 2019. Those meetings ultimately failed to produce a lasting agreement on North Korea’s nuclear programme, but they established a rare personal diplomatic channel between Washington and Pyongyang.

Since then, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in re-engaging with Kim Jong Un, including as recently as last October ahead of his Asia visit.

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