Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday morning on his historic visit to North Korea, according to BBC News. Xi will visit North Korea for two days, making him the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years, and Pyongyang hopes the visit can revive support to help its struggling economy. China is one of North Korea’s essential allies and the visit comes as tensions have been renewed on the Korean Peninsula after North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump’s second summit collapsed earlier this year in Hanoi, Vietnam. Xi, along with two top diplomats and He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will spend time in the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday morning on his historic visit to North Korea, according to BBC News. Xi will visit North Korea for two days, making him the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years, and Pyongyang hopes the visit can revive support to help its struggling economy. China is one of North Korea’s essential allies and the visit comes as tensions have been renewed on the Korean Peninsula after North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump’s second summit collapsed earlier this year in Hanoi, Vietnam. Xi, along with two top diplomats and He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will spend time in the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday morning on his historic visit to North Korea, according to BBC News. Xi will visit North Korea for two days, making him the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years, and Pyongyang hopes the visit can revive support to help its struggling economy. China is one of North Korea’s essential allies and the visit comes as tensions have been renewed on the Korean Peninsula after North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump’s second summit collapsed earlier this year in Hanoi, Vietnam. Xi, along with two top diplomats and He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will spend time in the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday morning on his historic visit to North Korea, according to BBC News. Xi will visit North Korea for two days, making him the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years, and Pyongyang hopes the visit can revive support to help its struggling economy. China is one of North Korea’s essential allies and the visit comes as tensions have been renewed on the Korean Peninsula after North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump’s second summit collapsed earlier this year in Hanoi, Vietnam. Xi, along with two top diplomats and He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will spend time in the…

Chinese President Xi Jinping departed for Pyongyang on Thursday morning on his historic visit to North Korea, according to BBC News. Xi will visit North Korea for two days, making him the first Chinese leader to visit the country in 14 years, and Pyongyang hopes the visit can revive support to help its struggling economy. China is one of North Korea’s essential allies and the visit comes as tensions have been renewed on the Korean Peninsula after North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump’s second summit collapsed earlier this year in Hanoi, Vietnam. Xi, along with two top diplomats and He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, will spend time in the…

Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday from several other Democrats for remarks he made earlier this week about working with segregationists during his time in the Senate during the 1970s, according to National Public Radio. Sen. Cory Booker, who is also seeking the nomination,called on Biden to apologize. “Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should,” Booker, who is black, said in a statement. “You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to…

Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday from several other Democrats for remarks he made earlier this week about working with segregationists during his time in the Senate during the 1970s, according to National Public Radio. Sen. Cory Booker, who is also seeking the nomination,called on Biden to apologize. “Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should,” Booker, who is black, said in a statement. “You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to…

Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday from several other Democrats for remarks he made earlier this week about working with segregationists during his time in the Senate during the 1970s, according to National Public Radio. Sen. Cory Booker, who is also seeking the nomination,called on Biden to apologize. “Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should,” Booker, who is black, said in a statement. “You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to…

Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden came under fire on Wednesday from several other Democrats for remarks he made earlier this week about working with segregationists during his time in the Senate during the 1970s, according to National Public Radio. Sen. Cory Booker, who is also seeking the nomination,called on Biden to apologize. “Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should,” Booker, who is black, said in a statement. “You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to…