Overview
- The 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum drew about 2,000 participants from more than 100 countries and organizations and closed after three days of panels and bilateral meetings.
- Chinese defence minister Dong Jun publicly offered to deepen practical military cooperation and framed the forum as a platform to advance the Global Security Initiative and multilateral security governance.
- A DPRK delegation led by Vice‑Minister Kim Kang Il reaffirmed that North Korea’s constitutionally enshrined status as a nuclear weapons state is "definite and irreversible" and blamed U.S. policies for peninsula tensions.
- North Korean officials met with China’s defence minister to discuss expanding strategic military communication and practical cooperation between the two militaries, according to DPRK state media.
- Delegates debated multipolarity, major‑power relations, maritime security and governance of military uses of emerging technologies, with Chinese officials pitching the forum as an international public good and a venue to build consensus on stability.