Bangladesh, June 12 -- The leaders of North Korea and China adopted a "far-reaching blueprint" for bilateral ties during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Xi made a rare visit to diplomatically isolated North Korea on Monday (June 8) after hosting a series of world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in Beijing. The trip also came at a time of unusually warm relations between North Korea and Russia, where Pyongyang has sent soldiers and munitions to assist Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Xi said the two countries "share a common destiny" and that he had reached an "important consensus" with his North Korean counterpart Kim...