Xi arrives to great welcome in DPRK for state visit

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), ride an open-top vehicle to the square of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun amid welcoming crowds, following a grand welcoming ceremony held by the DPRK side at the Sunan International Airport, in Pyongyang, DPRK, June 20, 2019. Xi Jinping arrived here Thursday for a state visit to the DPRK. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, were greeted beside the ramp by Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)