Off the wire
• First direct flight launched between Jinan and Moscow  • DPRK warns U.S. against sea blockade  • State Council appoints, removes officials  • Backgrounder: History and current status of the holy city Jerusalem  • Afghan soldiers defuse 117 improvised bombs within day: gov't  • Dollar rises to mid-113 yen on solid U.S., Japan stocks  • 1st LD: Explosion rocks Afghan capital Kabul  • Feature: Philippines unveils World War II sex slave statue in Manila  • Indian markets close higher  • Chinese-made ventricular assist device enters clinical testing  
You are here: 　

UN under-secretary-general tours DPRK institutions

Xinhua,December 08, 2017 Adjust font size:

PYONGYANG, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Jeffrey Feltman, the United Nations (UN) under-secretary-general for political affairs, visited foodstuff producer and medical institutions in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday, said the official Korean Central News Agency.

Feltman, a former U.S. diplomat, visited the Pyongyang Children's Foodstuff Factory and toured the Breast Tumor Institute of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and the Preventive Hospital No. 3 of the Ministry of Public Health, according to the news agency.

He also held talks with the DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho in central Pyongyang on Thursday.

Feltman arrived here on Tuesday for a four-day visit. He is scheduled to leave Pyongyang on Saturday. Enditem

 

Related News & Photos