North Korea media buries Xi message in China snub

SEOUL: North Korea’s top newspaper carried congratulatory messages from the leaders of Russia and Cuba on its front page, relegating one from China’s President Xi Jinping to page two, in what analysts described as a pointed snub to its traditional ally.

The messages were rote diplomatic missives that countries friendly to Pyongyang send every year on the anniversary of the founding of the North Korean state in 1948.