North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Travels To China

It is Kim's first trip abroad since he suffered a suspected stroke in 2008.
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Kim Jong-il Turns To Lone Ally China Amid Rising Tensions -- The Guardian

North Korean leader on rare visit abroad seen as mission to bolster isolated regime with new economic support.

Kim Jong-il, North Korea's leader, has arrived in China on a rare foreign trip that is being seen as an attempt to win financial and political support from his impoverished nation's only remaining ally.

Kim, on his first overseas visit since suffering a stroke in 2008, reportedly crossed the border in his luxury train early this morning before arriving in Dalian, a prosperous port city in north-east China.

There he is expected to see, at first-hand, the benefits of decades of free-market reforms before he leaves for talks in Beijing tomorrow.

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