PYONGYANG, June 20 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down here Thursday for talks with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Xi is paying a two-day state visit to the neighboring country at the invitation of Kim, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK.