Our starting point this morning... is a developing story we're following at this hour. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might be en route to Beijing as we speak.<br /> Sources within the aviation industry say a special plane, identified as an Ukrainian Antonov-148 carrying the logo of North Korea's state airline Air Koryo logo,... departed Pyongyang a little before 9:30AM, Korea time. <br />If in fact, Kim is on board the plane,... which is know to have been flown by Kim himself,... it would be his third trip to China this year alone.<br />He met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his past two trips. <br /> Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported this morning that Kim had been preparing for a trip to China as early as today,... to brief his Chinese counterpart on the Singapore summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.<br />We will be tracking this story as it develops,... and bring you the latest in our later newscasts. <br />
