S.Korea said DPRK envoy's visit to Russia to diversify diplomatic relations

SEOUL (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) sent a special envoy of top leader Kim Jong Un to Russia, seemingly with the intention of diversifying its diplomatic relations.

"Our government sees the dispatch of Choe Ryong Hae to Russia as a special envoy as being in an extended line with North Korea ( DPRK)'s attempt to diversify its external relations," Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol told a press briefing.

The DPRK's official Korean central news agency (KCNA) reported last week that top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un plans to send Choe, a member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, to Moscow, without elaborating on the purpose of his trip.

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