Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, left Pyongyang by his private train on September 1 to participate in celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-fascist War at the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China.
The train crossed the border at dawn on September 2.
On his visit to the PRC, Kim Jong Un is being accompanied by senior officials of the Central Committee of the WPK and the DPRK government.
