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Urgent: UN chief to visit DPRK this week -- report

Xinhua, November 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea this week, the first such visit by a UN chief in more than 20 years, South Korea's Yonhap reported.

The news agency said Ban would visit in his official capacity later this week, citing an unidentified high-level UN source.

Precise dates is not clear. Endi