<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping have discussed issues including denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. North Korea's state media today said, Kim expressed his gratitude to Xi for China's support for Pyongyang's policy on denuclearisation. The Korean Central News Agency said, during the meeting held in Beijing yesterday, Kim also said Pyongyang and Beijing are seeing their ties develop into unprecedentedly special relations.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Kim is in Beijing on his third visit to China this year, underscoring the major improvement in relations between the neighbors.<br />''<br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Last week at a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore, Kim pledged to work toward denuclearisation in exchange for US security guarantees.</span></p>''<div><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br />''</span></div>