Daily Mail: Hundreds of thousands of Pyongyang residents line up the streets to welcome China's President Xi as he arrives in North Korea to hold talks with Kim Jong-un ahead of meeting with US President Trump at G20
* China's President Xi landed in Pyongyang today for a two-day state visit to N. Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un
* Footage from Chinese state media shows residents passionately waving fake flowers to welcome President Xi
* Xi and Kim reportedly greeted the public from a limousine before being saluted at Kim Il-sung's mausoleum
* Trip comes days before the Chinese head of state is expected to meet with U.S. President Trump in Japan
* Both Xi and Kim are locked in separate disputes with the U.S. - Xi over trade and Kim over nuclear weapons
* Kim said in today's meeting with Xi that his country is waiting for a desired response in stalled nuclear talks
* Xi said his government is willing to play a constructive role in the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula
Hundreds of thousands of Pyongyang residents today lined up the streets to welcome China's President Xi Jinping for his first state visit to North Korea, according to Chinese state media.
Footage released by Beijing's state broadcaster CCTV shows men, women and children passionately waving what appears to be fake flowers as well as both countries' national flags at the airport and along the road.
More than 250,000 citizens reportedly swarmed to the streets between Pyongyang International Airport and Kumsusan State Guesthouse - where Xi and his wife will be staying - to get a glimpse of the Chinese President and their Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
The two leaders waved to the public from a convertible limousine, reported China's Xinhua News Agency.
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