North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a congratulatory message to China’s Xi Jinping on his re-election as president, state-run media said Sunday, in a rare direct message between the two Asian leaders.
Sunday’s statement run by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim had “warmly congratulated” Xi in a message sent Saturday that expressed the North Korean leader’s hopes that China will make even greater achievements “with Xi Jinping at the core.”
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China,
Shinzo Abe,
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North Korea,
Kim Jong Un,
Nuclear weapons,
South Korea,
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North Korea nuclear crisis,
North Korea-Japan relations,
Donald Trump,
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