BEIJING: Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived unannounced in Beijing yesterday and went straight into talks on his nuclear weapons ambitions after Washington urged Beijing to push to end the crisis.
Kim, whose special train drew into Beijing after an overnight journey from Pyongyang, will be in China for up to four days, during which he expects to meet his counterpart, military chief Jiang Zemin, and do some sightseeing, said a Chinese source familiar with the talks.
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