At the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is visiting China, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Kim is visiting China from Jan. 7 to 10, said the spokesperson of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing.

Kim is expected to meet again with both Trump and Moon in the near future and this visit to Beijing is seen as a move before those summits take place.

In separate letters sent to the presidents of the U.S. and the ROK at the turn of the year, Kim expressed the DPRK's willingness to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and enhance inter-Korean relations.