Chinese President Xi Jinping may visit North Korea as early as next week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported late on Wednesday (21 May) quoting a senior government official.
Another government source cited by Yonhap said a team of Chinese security service and protocol officials had recently been in Pyongyang and that a visit by Xi in late May or early June was likely.
The senior official was quoted as saying Xi, who hosted U.S. President Donald Trump last week, would try to act as a mediator between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
South Korea's foreign ministry did not immediately comment on the report.
China is a key economic and political ally of North Korea, and the two countries have made efforts to reinforce ties that had cooled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Korean leader Kim visited Beijing last year and stood alongside Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a major military parade.
Trump, who met Kim three times in his first term to negotiate the North's nuclear programme, has said he would be open to meeting the North Korean leader again and that he had a good relationship with him.
Meanwhile, North Korea said U.S. arms sales to South Korea and other regional allies were fuelling military tensions on the Korean peninsula and across the Asia-Pacific, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry said such "reckless" military build-ups would only prompt Pyongyang to further strengthen its own military deterrent to "overwhelm" them, KCNA said.
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