North Korea’s foreign minister is expected to visit Iran in the coming days, the country's official news agency reported.
“North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong Ho will pay an official visit to Iran following his trip to Singapore this week,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.
Ri was attending a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Singapore on Friday.
“The DPRK government delegation headed by Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho left here today to pay an official visits to Singapore and Iran,” KCNA reported.
Since the beginning of the year, Ri has visited China, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Sweden.
A North Korean delegation, comprising two high-level officials, visited Iran last year to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Hassan Rouhani, who was reelected for a second and last term in May 2017.
