AFP: Kim Yong-Nam, president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), will visit Iran in the summer, the official IRNA news agency reported. TEHRAN (AFP) — Kim Yong-Nam, president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), will visit Iran in the summer, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
"This high-ranking official is expected to visit in two or three months," Iranian foreign ministry's Asia affairs head Mohammad Ali Fathollahi told IRNA.
He did not offer details of the visit, but Yong-Nam's trip assumes significance as Iran and North Korea have both been accused by Western nations of flouting UN Security Council regulations over their nuclear programmes.
The two countries have also been singled out by Washington as "exceptions" in its new nuclear policy, which limits its overall use of its nuclear arsenal.
Yong-Nam, as president of the SPA, the communist state's rubber stamp parliament, serves as nominal head of state and assumes only ceremonial functions.
All power is with leader Kim Jong-Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission.
