SEOUL: UN chief Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea this week for a likely meeting with the nuclear-armed state’s diplomatically reclusive leader, Kim Jong-Un, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Monday.

If the trip goes ahead, Ban would be the first UN secretary general to set foot in the North for more than 20 years, and the first international leader to meet Kim since he formally assumed power nearly four years ago.

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