LONDON -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crossed the China -North Korea border by train on Tuesday, the country's state news agency reported, heading to Beijing where he will attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Kim will join Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, the other two leaders having come from a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Tianjin, where Xi hosted world leaders including Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kim is accompanied by a delegation including Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, the Korean Central News Agency reported. Kim, Xi and Putin will gather for the military parade amid Ukrainian and Western concerns over the collaboration of
North Korea's Kim crosses into China to meet Xi, Putin for Beijing military parade

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