Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho, on the same day the US reimposed nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Zarif welcomes Ri and a team of officials at the foreign ministry in Tehran, but no statement is made to reporters.
Ri is on a two-day visit to Tehran, and is due to meet with President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday.
The Fars news agency says the two sides discussed “bilateral relations and regional issues in the Middle East,” without giving further details.
The visit coincides with the United States reimposing sanctions on Iran after US President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal in May.
The US is currently also pushing Pyongyang to scrap its nuclear capabilities after Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un agreed a vague commitment to “denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” at their summit in June.
— AFP
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