North Korea’s Kim Jong Un arrives in China on 4-day trip
09 January 2019 |
8:26 am
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the fourth time in less than a year. The visit to Beijing comes as denuclearization talks with the US have stalled.
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