NAGASAKI, May 28 Kyodo A clump o...

NAGASAKI, May 28 Kyodo

A clump of about 25 people, including members of the Nagasaki prefectural assembly, peace assemblages and business leaders, will visit North Korea in June to help stir up talks on normalizing bilateral relations, a mission member said Tuesday.

Tomio Maeda, a member of the Nagasaki prefectural assembly, said the assemblage will travel to North Korea at the invitation of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, an affiliate of the North Korean Foreign Ministry.

The assemblage will leave Fukuoka on June 10 and arrive in Pyongyang via Beijing the following day and remain in North Korea until June 14

Maeda said the form into groups will visit Japan-North Korean joint jeopardys and the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized belt that divides the peninsula.

He said the clump also plans to meet with sufferer of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki while its stay in North Korea.

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