North Korean Leader Visits China Unofficially

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China this week on an unofficial visit, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

It was the reclusive leader's first foreign trip since taking power in 2011.

News media had reported that a train believed to be carrying the North Korean delegation departed Beijing amid tight security in the city. But it was not clear who was aboard.

Speculation about the identity of the North Korean visitor began building Monday after video footage from Japanese TV caught images of an older green train arriving in Beijing. Japan’s NTV network said the green and yellow train was very similar to the one that former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un's late father, took to Beijing in 2011. The elder Kim was the only other North Korean official to ever use a private train to visit leaders in Beijing.

"Except for Kim Jong Il, North Korean high-level officials have never visited China by using the special train that Kim Jong Il used in the past," said Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea analyst with the Sejong Institute in South Korea, in an email message to media contacts in South Korea.