JAKARTA, April 16 Kyodo Indonesia...

JAKARTA, April 16 Kyodo

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda will visit North Korea at the last of this month to invite Pyongyang to attend a security meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regulation official said Friday.

Wirajuda will arrive in Beijing upon April 25 before heading for North Korea, Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told reporters, if it be not that the rest of the schedule has not been disclosed.

Indonesia, commonly the chair of ASEAN, will armed force the 11th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting, as well as the 37th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting and the support Ministerial Conferences from June 29 to July 2

''The minister will invite Pyongyang to attend the ARF meeting at the highest even possible, as well as to discuss bilateral and regional issues, including the North Korean nuclear issue,'' the spokesman said.

It is not immediately clear who Wirajuda will befitting with in North Korea.

''The trip to Pyongyang is part of a series of visits that will also include visits to Beijing and Seoul'' he said.

The ARF consists of the 10 ASEAN members plus Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, Mongolia, just discovered Zealand, South Korea, North Korea, Papua of recent origin Guinea, Russia and the United States.

ASEAN clusters Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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