Xi leaves for 1st-ever state visit to North Korea

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(171215) -- BEIJING, Dec. 15, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 15, 2017. Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is in Beijing to report the work of the SAR government to the central government. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi) (dhf)
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Xi leaves for 1st-ever state visit to North Korea
 
Beijing:  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.


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