{"id":159411,"date":"2026-10-28T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159411"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:30:14","slug":"why-kim-jong-uns-border-trip-to-china-differs-from-past-pre-summit-playbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159411","title":{"rendered":"Why Kim Jong-un\u2019s border trip to China differs from past pre-summit playbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s trip to the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday echoed the intense coordination that preceded his previous summits with US President Donald Trump.<br \/>\nBetween March 2018 and June 2019, Kim met Chinese President Xi Jinping five times across Beijing, Dalian and Pyongyang, and three of those occasions happened not long before his summits with Trump.<br \/>\nYet, while Saturday\u2019s unannounced visit appeared superficially similar, analysts said the strategic focus had&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372396\/why-kim-jong-uns-border-trip-china-differs-past-pre-summit-playbooks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s trip to the Chinese border city of Dandong on Saturday echoed the intense coordination that preceded his previous summits&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}