CHINESE President Xi Jinping has told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he hopes Pyongyang and Washington can fully implement the outcomes of last week’s nuclear summit.

Xi told Kim that through the “concerted efforts of the relevant countries”, negotiations regarding issues on the Korean peninsula are back on track and the overall situation is moving in the direction of peace and stability.

The summit last week between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore marked an “important step toward the political solution of the Korean peninsula nuclear issue”, Xi was quoted as saying in the meeting at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.

Xi said China hopes North Korea and the US can “implement well the outcomes achieved at the summit”.

He said China would “as always play a constructive role”.

In a joint statement at last week’s summit, Kim pledged to work towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula in exchange for US security guarantees.

Kim’s two-day visit to China, which began yesterday, had not been announced in advance but was expected as part of the communist neighbours’ tradition to report to each other on major developments.

His visit was announced shortly after landing, dispensing with the secrecy shrouding previous trips by the leader and his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il.