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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.
North Korea sent its military delegation, led by Kim Jong-gak, first vice-director of the Korean People's Army general political bureau, to China earlier this week. The delegation returned home on Thursday, the KCNA said in a separate report.
In the last leg of his four-nation Asian tour in Seoul on Thursday, Obama announced that the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, will visit Pyongyang on Dec. 8 to try to bring the communist country back to a multilateral negotiating forum over its nuclear program.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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