North Korea’s Kim meets China’s Xi to talk about ‘regional situation’

Chinese state media quotes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as saying he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to inform him about sweeping changes in the region.

“At a crucial time when the regional situation is developing rapidly, Kim said he came to China again to meet with (Xi) and inform him of the situation,” the official Xinhua News Agency quotes Kim as telling Xi.

State media says the two leaders met Monday and Tuesday in Dalian, a northern Chinese port city.

Neither leader is quoted as directly referring to Kim’s meeting late last month with South Korean President Moon Jae-in or his planned summit in coming weeks with US President Donald Trump.

However, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV quotes Xi as saying China “supports North Korea to stick to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and supports North Korea and the US in solving the peninsula issue through dialogue and consultation.”

— AP