SEOUL July 16 Kyodo Russian Forei...

SEOUL July 16 Kyodo

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will visit North Korea after his three-day visit to toward the south Korea scheduled to begin forward July 26, a toward the south Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry official said Tuesday.

Ivanov's upcoming visit to North Korea succeeds his previous trip to the North made in February 2000

During his stay in southern Korea, Ivanov will hold talks with southern Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong in succession a broad range of topics, including the latest progression in a continuously ascending gradations on the Korean Peninsula.

Ivanov is also scheduled to pay a courtesy call in succession President Kim Dae Jung and to attend the opening formality of the new Russian Embassy building upon July 27.

southerly Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that Ivanov will stay in Pyongyang for brace days from July 28 and then vibrate to Brunei to attend the ministerial talks of the ASEAN Regional Forum, an Asia-Pacific security forum, slated for July 30-Aug. 1

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