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2009/10/20 20:40 KST
N. Korean leader's top aide visits Beijing: source

  
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's top official in charge of inter-Korean relations visited China over the past week, raising speculation about the North's diplomatic moves to improve its relations with regional countries, a diplomatic source in Beijing said Tuesday.

Kim Yang-gon, who is Pyongyang's point man on Seoul as director of the United Front Department, an intelligence agency under the North's Workers' Party, arrived in Beijing on Oct. 15 and returned home on Tuesday, said the source.