Xi meeting ‘was a success for Kim Jong Un’, experts says

Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Monte Francis, Edward Howell, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, says that this week’s China-North Korea summit was a success for Kim Jong Un “because…

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Xi meeting ‘was a success for Kim Jong Un’, experts says

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Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Monte Francis, Edward Howell, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, says that this week’s China-North Korea summit was a success for Kim Jong Un “because no mention of North Korea’s nuclear program or denuclearisation took place” adding that “it shows that China, just akin to Russia, is silently accepting North Korea’s status as a nuclear weapons state”.

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