Xi Jinping to meet Kim Jong Un in rare visit to North Korea

What we know about jinping

It is taking place weeks after Xi met the leaders of the US and Russia - two countries that loom large over North Korea's foreign policy

What changes

BBC highlights this story because it changes the calculus for actors watching jinping, meet, kim, jong, rare.

The setting

BBC notes that this did not emerge in isolation; pressures have been building around jinping.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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Signal Ledger on jinping

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of jinping, meet, kim, jong, rare: It is taking place weeks after Xi met the leaders of the US and Russia - two countries that loom large over North Korea's foreign policy.