The Chinese news agency Xinhua has announced that Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to North Korea next Friday, at the height of the regional tensions for Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
The correspondent, Song Tao, is headed to North Korea - explained Xinhua - to visit the country and discuss the Chinese Communist Party Congress, which took place last month.
The decision was taken a few days after the meeting in Beijing between the US president, Donald Trump and the same Xi, within the Asian mission of Trump. The official purpose of the visit of Song Tao, Xi's correspondent, will be to inform the regime governed by Kim Jong-one of the results of the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress, which ended the 24 last October, and to visit the country. The Xinhua agency in a first release does not specify the duration of the visit. Xi returned to the Chinese capital after his double visit to Vietnam and Laos, the first exit abroad after the re-election to the summit of the CCP, which took place at the end of the Congress.