List of international trips made by Kim Jong Un

Kim with South Korean president Moon Jae-in being escorted by a South Korean traditional honor guard at the DMZ in April 2018

This is a list of international trips made by Kim Jong Un. During his tenure as North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un has made eleven foreign trips to five countries. Kim became the supreme leader of North Korea in 2011 and his first international state visit was to China in March 2018.

Kim Jong Un was also educated abroad in Switzerland before becoming North Korean leader.

Summary

The number of visits per country where Kim Jong Un traveled are:

• One: Singapore, and Vietnam
• Two: South Korea, and Russia
• Five: China

  

  Map of international trips made by Kim Jong Un:

    One visit

    Two visits

    Three visits

    Four visits

    Five visits

    North Korea

2018

	Country	Locations	Date(s)	Leaders met	Details	Image
1	China	Beijing	March 25–28, 2018	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president Xi Jinping Chinese premier Li Keqiang	Main article: Kim–Xi meetings § First meeting First trip outside of North Korean territory since taking power in 2011. Xi Jinping is the first international leader to meet Kim Jong Un. Classified as an Official state visit. [1] Met with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, International Liaison Director Song Tao, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and members of the Communist Party Politburo. [2]
2	South Korea	Peace House, Panmunjom, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)	April 27, 2018	South Korean President Moon Jae-in	Main article: April 2018 inter-Korean summit Met with President Moon Jae-in in the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. [3] [4]
3	China	Dalian	May 7–8, 2018	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping	Main article: Kim–Xi meetings § Second meeting Working visit. [5] [6] Second meeting with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping within the span of 40 days. [7]
4	Singapore	Central Area, Sentosa Island	June 10–12, 2018	Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong United States President Donald Trump	Main article: 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit Held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Met with U.S. President Donald Trump. [8] [9] [10] [11]
5	China	Beijing	June 19–20, 2018	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president Xi Jinping	Main article: Kim–Xi meetings § Third meeting Third meeting with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping. [12] [13]

2019

	Country	Locations	Date(s)	Leaders met	Details	Image
6	China	Beijing	January 7–10, 2019	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping	Main article: Kim–Xi meetings § Fourth meeting Fourth meeting with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping
7	Vietnam	Lang Son, Hanoi	February 26–March 2, 2019	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân United States President Donald Trump [14] [15]	Main article: 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit Met with U.S. President Donald Trump. Official visit. Kim Jong Un stayed in Vietnam after the Trump summit to pay an official goodwill visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [16] Held a bilateral meeting with Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary, Vietnamese President Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân. Chairman Kim also visited President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Vietnam War Memorial, Hanoi. [17]
8	Russia	Vladivostok	April 24–26, 2019	Russian President Vladimir Putin	Main article: 2019 North Korea–Russia summit First meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. [18] [19]
9	South Korea	Freedom House, Panmunjom, Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)	June 30, 2019	United States President Donald Trump South Korean President Moon Jae-in	Main article: 2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit Met with US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. [20] [21]

2023

	Country	Locations	Date(s)	Leaders met	Details	Image
10	Russia	Vostochny Cosmodrome, Eastern Federal University, Komsomolsk aircraft factory, Vladivostok	September 12–17, 2023	Russian President Vladimir Putin	Main article: 2023 North Korea–Russia summit Second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Attending the Eastern Economic Forum.

2025

	Country	Locations	Date(s)	Leaders met	Details	Image
11	China	Beijing	September 2–4, 2025	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping Russian President Vladimir Putin	Main article: 2025 China Victory Day Parade Attended the 2025 China Victory Day Parade. [22] Met with President Vladimir Putin and President & Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Gallery

• 
  Chairman Kim shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, April 27, 2018
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  Chairman Kim with U.S. President Donald Trump at the start of the bilateral talks in the Singapore summit, June 12, 2018
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  Chairman Kim with U.S. President Donald Trump at the start of the bilateral talks in the Hanoi summit, February 27, 2019
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  Chairman Kim shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019

Possible future trips

Country	Locations	Date(s)	Receiving leaders	Details
South Korea	Seoul	Cancelled	South Korean President Moon Jae-in	During the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, Kim & Moon announced that Kim would make an official visit to Seoul by the end of the year. [23] Following the summit's conclusion, it was reported from South Korea's Yonhap news agency that the visit would happen in December 2018. [24] No preparations had been made by the conclusion of Moon's term in 2022. [25]
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Cancelled	Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga	President Khaltmaagiin Battulga sent a letter to Kim Jong Un, congratulating him on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of formal Mongolia–North Korea relations. In the letter, he invited Kim to visit Ulaanbaatar, but this is not possible anymore because Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh won the election in 2021.
United States	Washington, D.C.	Cancelled	United States President Donald Trump	Then-United States President Donald Trump expressed interest in inviting Kim to the White House and both he and the Korean Central News Agency claimed that Kim accepted an invitation. [26] [27] [28] [29] Trump said that such a visit would happen "at the appropriate time, a little bit further down the road." [30] After Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he raised the possibility of another future meeting with Kim. [31]

See also

• North Korea portal

• List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung
• List of international trips made by Kim Jong Il
• North Korean leaders' trains
• Ilyushin Il-62 (Russian long-range narrow-body jet airliner)

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External links

• Official website Archived 2019-04-24 at the Wayback Machine of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea