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SIGNIFICANCE OF NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER’S VISIT TO INDIA – ANALYSIS (SOURCE- EURASIA REVIEW / AUTHOR- Dr RAJARAM PANDA)

Image credits- Flickr/ MEA Official photo gallery, Government of India Source- Eurasia Review Author- Dr . Rajaram Panda North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong made a surprise two-day visit to India on 12-14 April 2015, the first by a foreign minister of that country in 25 years and thus a rare high-level engagement between India and North Korea. India and North Korea established diplomatic relations in December 1973. The timing and significance of the visit cannot be missed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to make a maiden three-nation visit to China, Mongolia and South Korea in May 2015. For India, this gave a good opportunity to reassess its stand on the on-going conflict between the South and North Koreas. As scheduled, Yong met with Sushma Swaraj and Vice-President Hamid Ansari. One cannot also miss the timing of the visit as India’s defence minister Manohar Parikkar left on a four-day visit to South Korea on 14 April even when Yong was still i