Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, April 29

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday in Michigan state that his meeting with top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un could happen in three or four weeks.

"It's going be a very important meeting, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Trump said. (US-DPRK-Meeting)

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SEOUL -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has said his country will openly close its main nuclear test site in May, the Blue House of South Korea said.

Yoon Young-chan, senior press secretary for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, told a press briefing that during the April 27 summit, Kim told Moon that he will shutdown the nuclear test site, which will be transparently made open to the international society. (S. Korea-DPRK-Nuclear Site)

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LOS ANGELES -- U.S. involvement in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative may start with the U.S. state of California, China's top diplomat in Los Angeles said.

"California maintains a close economic and trade tie and people-to-people exchange with China," Zhang Ping, Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles, said in his keynote speech to the Belt and Road Forum hosted by the Hong Kong Association of Southern California. (US-CA-Belt and Road)

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FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- At least nine Afghan police personnel were killed and 10 others injured in a gunfight after the Taliban attacked a remote district in the country's northern province of Badakhshan, local police said.

"Militants stormed security checkpoints in the outer neighborhood of Tashkan district Saturday night, triggering a gunfight. Sporadic clashes were ongoing Sunday around the district center and its local bazaar as security forces are fighting back the assailants," spokesman Sanaullah Rouhani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Taliban-Gunfight) Enditem