{"id":39597,"date":"2018-08-19T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39597"},"modified":"2018-08-19T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:53:01","slug":"chinese-prez-xi-to-visit-n-korea-next-month-straits-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/chinese-prez-xi-to-visit-n-korea-next-month-straits-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Prez Xi to visit N Korea next month: Straits Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai<br \/>\nChinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North Korea\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Chinese leader\u2019s first visit to the North Korean capital since he took power in 2012, and 13 years after the last visit by a Chinese President, when Xi\u2019s predecessor Hu Jintao visited in 2005, the newspaper said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Straits Times did not say where it obtained the information and the Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s celebrations are set to take place on Sept. 9 and the Straits Times said that Xi\u2019s visit could still be subject to last-minute changes.<\/p>\n<p>China is the reclusive country\u2019s most important trading partner and Kim has visited China three times so far this year during which he has held talks with Xi on improving cooperation between the two countries and economic reforms.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North Korea\u2019s founding. It will be the Chinese leader\u2019s first visit to the North Korean capital since he took power in 2012, and 13 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39599,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions\/39599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}