North Korean state media reported on Wednesday that the Communist tyranny dispatched an economic delegation to Iran, an unusually public visit that could signal tighter cooperation between the two regimes or could be a North Korean effort to make Western governments nervous by simulating a deeper Pyongyang-Tehran partnership.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency noted that the last public visit to Iran by a Pyongyang official was in 2019 when the vice chair of the rubber-stamp North Korean legislature took a trip to Tehran.
North Korean media claimed a full delegation was headed for Iran this time, led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong-ho. Yun visited Russia in April. North Korean media portray him as a key player in Russian relations.
Yonhap thought the
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