North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week for talks, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported Thursday, citing diplomatic sources. The two leaders last met in Pyongyang in June 2019, when Kim agreed to a denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The upcoming meeting comes as North Korea has been conducting a series of missile tests, including one last week that was described by the South Korean military as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The U.S. has been calling on China to do more to rein in North Korea, but Beijing has resisted such pressure..
The White House confirmed the meeting in a statement Thursday, saying that President Trump .