This composite image shows (from left) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. - Yonhap, AFP-Yonhap
PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is set to take an initial step onto the multilateral diplomatic stage in China this week, with his planned trip to attend a military parade in Beijing setting the stage for a possible three-way summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
It will be the first time for Kim, who assumed power in late 2011, to attend a multilateral diplomatic event. His grandfather and the North's founder Kim Il-sung attended a military parade in Beijing in 1959.
