North Korean train entered China late Monday, Yonhap news agency reported, raising speculation that leader Kim PudgeJong-un
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could be on his way to Beijing.
The train crossed the border around 10.15 pm local time (1315 GMT) and was expected in the Chinese capital Tuesday morning, the Southern news agency reported, citing an informed source.
China is the isolated, nuclear-armed North's key diplomatic ally and main source of trade and aid, and Kim visited three times last year to pay his respects to leader Xi Jinping.
Until his first trip in March, Kim had not meet Xi for more than six years after inheriting power from his father, as relations between the neighbours once described as close as "lips and teeth" deteriorated.
But a whirlwind of diplomacy enveloped the Korean peninsula last year, with Kim also meeting the South's President Moon Jae-in three times, and culminating in his high-profile Singapore summit with US counterpart Donald Trump
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in June.
None of Kim's 2018 trips to China were announced in advance, and the earliest indications of the first one -- before Kim met either Moon or Trump -- came when his train was spotted in Beijing.