North Korean supremo Kim Jong on a visit to China, says Chinese Media

Beijing, March 27: A report by a leading global media agency stated, Kim Jong Un, the North Korean supremo is in China. The DPRK chief had arrived in Beijing by train. The visit by Kim Jong Un is expected to fortify the ties between both nations.

The reports come after a heavy police presence was noted at the border of China and North Korea, and at a Beijing hotel popular with foreign dignitaries, according to reports in South China Morning Post.

“At the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, where foreign dignitaries usually stay, there has been a marked increase in police activity, with a large number of officers and about 50 vehicles seen in the area. Nearby roads have been cordoned off.”

Meanwhile, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, however, said at a media briefing that she had no information for the moment about reports that Kim visited China. "The information will be published in due course," she said.

However, the US reacting to Kim Jong Un's China visit stated that it is hard to believe in such reports and that it needn't be true. The White House said on Monday it could not confirm the media reports about Kim’s possible Beijing visit.

“We cannot confirm those reports. We do not know if they were necessarily true,” White House spokesman Raj Shah told a press briefing.

Shah said the US’s maximum pressure campaign against Pyongyang, in conjunction with dozens of other countries, has brought the North Koreans to the negotiation table.