According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, which cited the North’s state-run radio program, a train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un entered China early Tuesday.
Kim, one of 26 heads of state scheduled to attend a military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender, is making a rare travel outside of North Korea.
If all goes according to plan, the diplomatic effort will be the first time that China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladmir Putin, and Kim attend the same event.
At a meeting of Eurasian leaders in Tianjin, just south of Beijing, on Monday, Xi and Putin alternately swiped at the West.
