North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping held face-to-face talks for the first time in over six years on Thursday, signaling the revival of a relationship that appeared to have grown distant in recent years.

However, the long-awaited summit ultimately yielded little of substance, with state media readouts from both sides emphasizing vague generalities and affirmations of the decades-long friendship rather than concrete objectives and plans.

This largely mirrored previous DPRK-China summits, which have never led to joint declarations. But the meeting was even more abridged than Kim’s visits to