Pyongyang briefly reports on New Year's greeting by China's Xi to N. Korea's Kim
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are seated side by side during a banquet in Beijing, Sept. 6, 2025. Captured from the Korean Central Television
Pyongyang's state media on Thursday briefly reported on a New Year's message by Chinese President Xi Jinping to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The report by the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), however, did not provide details of Xi's message.
The KCNA listed Xi and his wife among a number of foreign leaders who have sent New Year's messages to Kim, including leaders from Vietnam, Myanmar and Belarus.
Last month, the KCNA reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a New Year's message to Kim, which it disclosed in detail.
Putin sent the New Year's message on Dec. 18 and the KCNA released it last Thursday, quoting him as hailing the North's "heroic" dispatch of troops in Russia's war against Ukraine.