Xi leaves for state visit to DPRK

BEIJING -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, left Beijing on Monday for a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Xi's trip is at the invitation of Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK.

Xi's entourage includes his wife Peng Liyuan, Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, and Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and foreign minister.