Xi leaves for 1st-ever state visit to North Korea
Thursday - June 20, 2019 8:30 am ,
Category : WORLD
Beijing, June 20 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday embarked on his first-ever state visit to North Korea, where he will meet Pyongyang leader Kim Jong-un and discuss various bilateral issues.Xi is paying the visit at the invitation of Kim, Xinhua news agency.The two-day visit by Xi will be a first by a Chinese President in the last 14 years and the first since he came to power in 2013. It follows Kim's four visits to China in the past year.A day before the visit, Xi, in an op-ed published in an official North Korean newspaper on Wednesday, said his trip to Pyongyang will help achieve progress in the negotiations on the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization issue.
--IANS ksk
--IANS ksk
