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Email Print Factbox Ties between North Korea and China Fri, May 20 2011 Analysis & Opinion Foreign private equity braces for rough ride to China -ANALYSIS Strauss-Kahn’s successor, Chinese? Related Topics World » North Korea » 1 / 3 A vehicle convoy believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-il leaves the train station in Changchun, Jilin province, China May 21, 2011. Picture taken through window. Credit: Reuters/Aly Song By Ben Blanchard and Royston Chan CHANGCHUN, China | Sat May 21, 2011 1:40am EDT CHANGCHUN, China (Reuters) - A secretive convoy from North Korea travelled around the northeast Chinese city of Changchun on Saturday, in what may be the latest stop by the North's ruler Kim Jong-il as he seeks to shore up ties with his country's sole major supporter. Neither Beijing nor Pyongyang has said whether he, and possibly his son and heir apparent Kim Jong-un, is visiting China. Both sides are habitually secretive about such trips, and there have been no definitive sightings. But the tight security and unscheduled train movements echoed past visits by 69-year-old Kim Jong-il, who visited twice last year to woo his powerful neighbor. A convoy of a dozen or so cars that included a large, black Mercedes Benz with darkened windows later whisked at least some of the mystery guests into the heavily guarded South Lake Hotel in Changchun, accompanied by police vehicles and an ambulance. "I assume it's some leader but nobody tells us anything. Living round here you get used to stuff like this," said one local resident strolling past the hotel. He gave only his surname, Wang. This latest secretive visit from North Korea comes while China's Premier Wen Jiabao visits Japan for a weekend summit with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, both foes of Pyongyang. North Korea rattled the region last year with its increasingly belligerent stance toward the far richer South, and has drawn closer to neighbor Beijing for economic and diplomatic support. STRATEGIC BUFFER China has sought to steady ties with Seoul and Tokyo, but also sees North Korea as a strategic buffer against the United States and its regional allies. In recent years, China has sought to shore up relations with the North with increased aid and trade and frequent visits there by leaders. The arrival in China on Friday of a distinctive train from North Korea prompted South Korean officials and media to conclude it was carrying Kim Jong-un, anointed last year as heir apparent to his aging father, but speculation then shifted to it being the father. On Saturday morning, the train reached Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in China's northeast, where the station's exit for official guests was cordoned off by police. A South Korean newspaper reported that Kim Jong-un, in his late twenties, was not among the North Korean visitors, citing government sources. "The name of Kim Jong-un was not included in the list of 70 people who officially accompanied Kim Jong-il," an unnamed South Korean official told the paper. In the past, such visits have also been shrouded in secrecy, and China or North Korea have acknowledged a visit only near or after its end. Kim Jong-il travels by train due to his fear of flying, and visited China last May and August. Northeast China could play an important part in North Korea's economy, and Kim has travelled there before, including last year when Chinese President Hu prodded him to open up the North's economy. Changchun city alone has an economy worth $52 billion in 2010, bigger than North Korea's national economy, worth about $40 billion in 2009, according to a U.S. government estimate that used purchasing power parity methods. During Kim Jong-il's previous trip, he told Hu that Pyongyang remained committed to dismantling nuclear facilities in line with previous international agreements. In November, however, the North showed a U.S. nuclear physicist what it said was a uranium enrichment program, which could open a second route to make a nuclear bomb along with its plutonium program. That announcement, say Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, shows the North is not serious about its push to restart aid-for-disarmament nuclear talks, stalled for more than two years. Kim Jong-il is widely believed by South Korean officials and experts to have suffered a stroke in 2008, and analysts had thought his visits last year were aimed at shoring up support for a handover of power to his youngest son, Jong-un. But the elder Kim's health appears to have improved significantly since the visits to China last year, prompting diplomats and analysts to re-evaluate their assessment of the pace of succession. 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