North Korea avoids contact with South Korea and U.S. at ASEAN talks
VIENTIANE/TOKYO -- North Korea's lack of high-level representation at yet another ASEAN-hosted conference suggests that Pyongyang is avoiding multilateral venues as it pursues closer relations with President Vladimir Putin's Russia.
For a sixth straight year, Pyongyang did not send its foreign minister to the ASEAN Regional Forum, one of the few international ministerial conferences that North Korea participates in.
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