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2009/11/20 07:44 KST
China's defense minister to visit North Korea

  
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Yonhap) -- China's defense minister will visit North Korea, media reports from Pyongyang said Friday, in a rare trip that follows U.S. President Barack Obama's journey to the Asian region.

The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a one-sentence dispatch that Liang Guanglie will visit the country "soon." It did not give the time and purpose of Liang's visit, but China's defense ministry announced earlier that he will embark on a three-nation tour from Nov. 22 to Dec. 5 that starts in North Korea and continues in Japan and Thailand.