North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has traveled to China for a second time to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a planned summit between North Korea and the US.
The two leaders exchanged views on nuclear disarmament and the Korean peninsula "in a cordial and friendly atmosphere" with President Xi affirming close Sino-North Korean ties, "an unshakeable policy," Xinhua reported.
This is the second visit to China by North Korea’s Mr Kim, who also first traveled by armoured train to Beijing in March during which he met with Mr Xi as well as Wang Huning, a top Communist party official.