Kim Jong Un backs China’s push for a Multipolar World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has voiced support for China’s push to build a “multipolar world” and called for deeper ties between the traditional allies during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, state media said on Saturday.

During the meeting on Friday, Kim said his Government will fully support Chinese efforts to achieve territorial integrity based on its “one-China principle”, a reference to Beijing’s official position that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory, according to North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency.

Kim also outlined North Korea’s position on unspecified regional and international issues of “mutual concern” and said sustained development of ties between the two countries has become more crucial in the current geopolitical environment, KCNA said.

Wang, on a two-day trip to North Korea, said the countries’ relations were entering a “new phase” following a summit last year between Kim and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Embracing the ideas of a “new Cold War” and a “multipolarised world”, Kim has sought to break out of international isolation and push a more assertive foreign policy by expanding ties with Governments locked in confrontations with the United States.