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N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrives in Changchun
CHANGCHUN (Yonhap) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in Changchun in northeast China on Saturday as he began a second day of his secret trip to China.
Kim's special train arrived at Changchun's train station around 8:20 a.m., and a convoy believed to be carrying an entourage accompanying the leader was seen heading toward the city's South Lake Hotel, a source in Changchun told Yonhap News Agency. The source did not give any further details and asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity.
Kim held summit talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the same hotel during his previous trip in August.
Kim arrived in the Chinese border city of Tumen early Friday before heading to Mudanjiang in northeast China in his third trip to China in a little more than a year. He visited China in early May and late August last year.
His trip comes one day before leaders of South Korea, China and Japan are to meet in Japan. North Korea is expected to be on the agenda for talks between the leaders of South Korea and China on the sidelines of the annual three-way summit.
It also comes amid no signs of progress in international efforts to resume stalled six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.
The North has expressed its willingness to rejoin the nuclear talks that it quit in 2009, but Seoul and Washington demand Pyongyang first demonstrate its denuclearization commitment by action. Seoul also wants Pyongyang to apologize for its two deadly attacks on the South last year that killed a total of 50 South Koreans, mostly soldiers.
The disarmament-for-aid talks include the two Koreas, host China, the U.S., Japan and Russia.
Kim's special train arrived at Changchun's train station around 8:20 a.m., and a convoy believed to be carrying an entourage accompanying the leader was seen heading toward the city's South Lake Hotel, a source in Changchun told Yonhap News Agency. The source did not give any further details and asked not to be identified, citing the issue's sensitivity.
Kim held summit talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the same hotel during his previous trip in August.
Kim arrived in the Chinese border city of Tumen early Friday before heading to Mudanjiang in northeast China in his third trip to China in a little more than a year. He visited China in early May and late August last year.
His trip comes one day before leaders of South Korea, China and Japan are to meet in Japan. North Korea is expected to be on the agenda for talks between the leaders of South Korea and China on the sidelines of the annual three-way summit.
It also comes amid no signs of progress in international efforts to resume stalled six-party talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.
The North has expressed its willingness to rejoin the nuclear talks that it quit in 2009, but Seoul and Washington demand Pyongyang first demonstrate its denuclearization commitment by action. Seoul also wants Pyongyang to apologize for its two deadly attacks on the South last year that killed a total of 50 South Koreans, mostly soldiers.
The disarmament-for-aid talks include the two Koreas, host China, the U.S., Japan and Russia.
