UN envoy meets North Korean foreign minister
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — A senior United Nations official on a rare high-level visit to North Korea held talks with the North’s foreign minister on Thursday.
Jeffrey Feltman, the U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs, met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on the second full day of the highest-level U.N. visit to the North since 2010. He arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a stay expected to last four or five days.
It’s not immediately known what the two discussed.
According to North Korea’s state-run media, Feltman discussed U.N. assistance and operations in North Korea along with “other matters of mutual concern” during a meeting with the vice foreign minister on Wednesday. Six U.N. agencies, with about 50 international staff, are represented in the North.