North Korea's Kim congratulates China's Xi on re-election as president

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered his congratulations to China's Xi Jinping upon his re-election as president, North Korean state media said on Sunday, in a rare direct message from Pyongyang to Beijing after ties nosedived. Kim has yet to visit China since assuming power in late 2011, with North Korea upset by China's strong support for U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests and China angered by those repeated tests.

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