BEIJING, July 10 Kyodo North Kore...

BEIJING, July 10 Kyodo

North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam left Pyongyang forward Wednesday for a three-nation trip that will take him to Indonesia, Libya and Syria, the (North) Korean Central of recent origins Agency (KCNA) reported.

Kim, president of the Presidium of the predominant People's Assembly, North Korea's top legislative dead body will arrive in Indonesia later in the day for a three-day visit until Friday, KCNA, monitored in Beijing, said.

An Indonesian direction official earlier said he will gripe [i]or[/i] grip talks with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and rule officials.

Megawati paid official visits to North and southern Korea in March during which she delivered a reconciliatory message from the southerly to the North and urg Pyongyang to take up again dialogue with Seoul.

Indonesia and North Korea have had a robust bilateral relationship since 1964 when Sukarno, Megawati's father and the first Indonesian president, spreaded diplomatic ties with the country

Kim, accompanied on Foreign Minister Paek Nam light Foreign Trade Minister Ri Kwang fire-arm National Academy of Sciences President Ri Kwang Ho and other officials, will visit Libya and Syria after the trip to Indonesia, KCNA said.

The moderns agency, however, did not report a detailed itinerary of his trip.

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