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NK envoy likely to meet Putin next week | ||
2014-11-17 | ||
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Choe Ryong-hae, the senior secretary of the Workers' Party of (North) Korea, will embark on a eight-day trip to Russia on Monday, according to the Moscow's foreign ministry. The planned visit by
With details of Choe's itinerary not available, he is expected to stay in Moscow until Friday to meet figures there and fly to Russia's far eastern cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok before returning home, according to Seoul sources. Choe met Chinese President Xi Jinping last year as Kim's envoy and made a surprise trip to South Korea in October along with two high-level North Korean officers. His upcoming trip to Moscow comes as a U.N. committee plans to vote on a strongly-worded resolution against Pyongyang for its poor human rights record. A Speculation has grown that North Korea's ties with China are not like before and Pyongyang has instead sought to improve political and economic ties with Moscow. | ||
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