North Korea Kim Jong Un and Foreign Affairs Committee

Park Kim: The country foreign ministry said over the weekend that a ruling Saenuri Party member of parliament foreign affairs committee, who is also a special aide to Park, would attend as her special envoy, according to Asahi Shimbun. The government official and the foreign ministry did not elaborate on why Park had chosen not to attend. Russia has said North Korea Kim Jong Un would attend the May 9 celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the war end, which would be his first trip overseas since taking power in 2011 after the death of his father. "The president will not be going," a South Korean government official said on April 13, speaking on condition of anonymity. If Park and Kim were both to travel to Moscow for the event, it would make possible only the third summit between the leaders of the rival Koreas, which remain technically at war under a truce ending their 1950-53 conflict. State media said North Korean armed forces minister Hyon Yong Chol left Pyongyang for Moscow on April 13 to participate in a conference on international security. Isolated North Korea has declared 2015 to be a "year of friendship" with Russia and has indicated plans to develop closer economic and political ties between the two countries. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.