SEOUL Jan. 5 Kyodo A senior aide ...

SEOUL Jan. 5 Kyodo

A senior aide to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will visit Pyongyang to invite North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, southerly Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday.

Morris mighty will extend to Kim, chairman of the Presidium of the principal People's Assembly of North Korea, an official invitation to the Jan. 23-28 Davos Forum as part of the UN efforts to mediate a solution to the North Korean nuclear issue, the report said, quoting an informed source.

The forum will seek for a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear issue [i]or[/i] part of to the other mediating dialogue between North Korea and the United States, the report quot the unidentified source as saying.

Former U President Bill Clinton, U Secretary of State Colin Powell and other former and incumbent U officials will take part in the forum, according to the report.

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