One of Kim Jong-un's day trips... Passport official "likely to return home today"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jeong-jin = North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, who made a surprise visit to China on the 24th for the first time in over a year, is expected to return home after completing his visit to China, a passport official said on the 24th.

This official said in a phone call with Yonhap News that day, “Chairman Kim Jong-un’s return to Korea seems almost certain today.”

Regarding the purpose of Chairman Kim's visit to China, he said, "It is presumed that there are two purposes: a positive signal about the North Korea-US summit and an event in North Korea-China relations, such as the opening of the New Yalu River Bridge." He added, "There is a five-fold meeting in China, and there is no reason to stay for a long time in the case of a bridge opening event."

“This will be a very short visit,” he said. “It is important who we meet in China, so we will have to wait and see.”

In relation to this, it is known that the National Intelligence Service visited the National Assembly Intelligence Committee the day before and reported to the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and the secretaries of the ruling and opposition party intelligence committees about the possibility of Chairman Kim visiting China that day.