Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan paid homage at the China-DPRK Friendship Tower in Pyongyang on 9 June 2026, accompanied by Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju, in a gesture underscoring bilateral ties between China and North Korea.
Xi Jinping walked into a lecture hall of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang on 9 June 2026, with Kim Jong Un at his side during the Tuesday morning visit, according to Xinhua.
During his 9 June 2026 state visit to Pyongyang, Chinese President Xi Jinping toured the WPK Central Cadres Training School lecture hall with Kim Jong Un — a facility that trains senior officials of North Korea's ruling party.
Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un shook hands on 9 June 2026 after jointly planting a fir tree in the grounds of the WPK Central Cadres Training School in Pyongyang — a symbolic act marking the leaders' shared visit to the institution.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un jointly planted a fir tree in the wooded grounds between teaching buildings of the WPK Central Cadres Training School in Pyongyang on 9 June 2026, according to Xinhua.
The 9 June 2026 visit by Xi Jinping to the WPK Central Cadres Training School alongside Kim Jong Un — capped by a symbolic tree-planting — is widely seen as a reaffirmation of the China-DPRK strategic partnership, according to state media reports.