North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho who arrived in New York on Tuesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly, has held talks with his counterparts from the U.S., China, Japan and Russia, countries highly relevant to the Korean Peninsula.
According to the experts, his meetings with foreign ministers illustrate the North's expanded diplomatic profile following the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summits with the United States and South Korea.
Ri is scheduled to give an address at the U.N. assembly on Saturday, meet with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and engage in bilateral diplomacy with other countries friendly to the North.
Moving on, South and North Korean co-heads of the recently opened joint liaison office will hold their second talks today.
They are expected to focus on holding a joint event in the North Korean capital next week to celebrate the 11th anniversary of their 2007 summit agreement, dubbed the October 4th Declaration.
They are also expected to discuss follow-up measures on last week's inter-Korean summit, and schedules for the next high-level talks.
The two Koreas opened their joint liaison office two weeks ago in the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, a factory park they ran together until early 2016.
The office increases direct communication between Seoul and Pyeongyang, with their officials staying there 24/7.
Meanwhile, the United States has returned 64 sets of South Korean soldiers' remains to their homeland at the send-off ceremony on Thursday local time in Hawaii.
The remains were found during the joint discovery operations in North Korea from 1996 to 2005, and they were identified as South Korean nationals through a joint forensic review.
Source: Arirang News
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