Kim set to make rare overseas trip

Parade power: Female members of a Chinese militia contingent marching during drills ahead of the Sept 3 military parade on the outskirts of Beijing. — AP

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will visit China for the military parade on Sept 3, a rare trip that would place him alongside other world leaders attending, inclu­ding Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kim “will soon visit the People’s Republic of China at the invita­tion of Xi Jinping” to participate in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said yesterday.