# Chinese leader Xi Jinping is on a two-day state visit to North Korea, his first to the secluded nation in seven years. The trip comes ahead of the 65th anniversary of the signing of the friendship and mutual assistance treaty between the two nations, China’s only mutual defence treaty. In recent years, the North Korea-China relationship has been strained by Pyongyang’s increasingly close relationship with Russia. Officials say the main aim of the visit is to reassert the two countries’ close historic ties.
Chinese president Xi Jinping looking to revitalise ties with North Korea