New Delhi, June 7 -- The uranium enrichment facility was unveiled four days before Xi Jinping's plane is scheduled to touch down in Pyongyang. The timing was not incidental.

facility first, summit announcement second - told analysts everything they needed to know about what Pyongyang wanted on the agenda when the two leaders sit down on June 8.

"This suggests that the question of recognizing or not recognizing North Korea's nuclear status will become the main focus of attention at the upcoming Pyongyang-Beijing summit," Professor Lim Eul-Chul from the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University told RIA Novosti. The summit will be Xi's first visit to the North Korean capital since June 2019 - a gap of nearly seven years tha...