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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a surprise one-day trip to Dandong, China, on Oct. 24, crossing a newly opened bridge and meeting senior Chinese official Wang Huning, not President Xi Jinping, Yonhap and KBS World report. He vowed to advance the countries' 'blood-forged' friendship, timed days before the anniversary of Chinese troops entering the Korean War, Korea Times notes. Seoul's unification ministry said it hopes the trip revives dialogue with neighboring nations, while a Korea Times editorial calls it a 'wake-up call' for the South Korea-US-Japan partnership and urges restraint, arguing the peninsula's future cannot be understood through inter-Korean relations alone.