North Korea's foreign minister visited Myanmar on Thursday for high-level talks that come on the heels of a U.S. warning against any cooperation between the two nations on nuclear technology.
Officials and diplomats confirmed the arrival of Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, who is on a four-nation tour and making his first visit to Myanmar since the two countries resumed diplomatic ties in 2007. The sources spoke anonymously because the visit has not been officially announced by the military-ruled government.
Few details are known about Pak's four-day visit. He was scheduled to tour Yangon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda before traveling Friday to the administrative capital of Naypyitaw to meet his counterpart, Nyan Win, and other senior government officials, the officials and diplomats said. The subject of talks has not been disclosed.
Myanmar and North Korea are two of Asia's most authoritarian regimes, and both face sanctions by the West. They have had increasingly close ties in recent years, especially in military affairs, and there are fears that Pyongyang is supplying the army-led Southeast Asian regime with nuclear technology.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed concern at a security meeting last week with senior Asian officials about reports that North Korea had delivered military equipment to Myanmar, also known as Burma.
"We continue to be concerned by the reports that Burma may be seeking assistance from North Korea with regard to a nuclear program," Clinton said. "We will be discussing further ways in which we can cooperate to alter the actions of the government in Burma and encourage the leaders there to commit to reform and change and the betterment of their own people."
On his regional tour, Pak also visited Vietnam and Laos and was headed next to Indonesia, diplomats said.
Myanmar severed diplomatic relations with North Korea in 1983, following a fatal bombing attack during a visit by South Korea's then-President Chun Doo-hwan that killed 21 people, including four South Korean Cabinet ministers.
Three North Korean commandos involved in the bombing were detained — one blew himself up during his arrest, a second was hanged and a third died in prison in 2008.
ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး Pak Ui Chun သည္ နအဖစစ္အစုိးရႏွင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္အတြက္ ယေန႔ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရိွေၾကာင္း အစုိးရအရာရိွတဦးအား ကိုးကားၿပီး ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႔စ္သတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။
Pak Ui Chun သည္ မနက္ျဖန္တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းႏွင့္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ေတြ႔ဆုံရန္ရိွၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၌ လာမည့္တနဂၤေႏြေန႔အထိ ေနထိုင္သြားရန္ရိွေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏွင့္ ၁၉၈၃ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ သံတမန္ အဆက္အသြယ္ျပတ္္ေတာက္ခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္လည္ပတ္သည့္ ယင္းအခ်ိန္က ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားသမၼတ ခ်မ္ဒူး၀မ္အား ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕အာဇာနည္ ဗိမာန္တြင္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား ေအဂ်င့္မ်ားက ဗုံးခဲြလုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ရန္ ႀကိဳးစားမႈျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ သံတမန္ အဆက္အသြယ္ျပတ္္ေတာက္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းဗုံးေပါက္ကြဲမႈေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း (၂၁) ဦး ေသဆုံးခဲ့သည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ သံတမန္ဆက္ဆံေရး ျပန္လည္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။
အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး မစၥစ္ကလင္တန္က ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ သီတင္းပတ္အတြင္း ဗီယက္နမ္ႏိုင္ငံ ဟႏြိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ အာဆီယံေဒသတြင္း ထိပ္သီးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံတို႔၏ စစ္ေရးအရ ဆက္ဆံမႈမ်ားအေပၚ စိုးရိမ္ေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားသေဘၤာတစင္း စစ္လက္နက္ပစၥည္းမ်ားတင္ေဆာင္ကာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ဆိုက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ျခင္းႏွင့္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရသည္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားထံမွ အကူအညီယူေနသည္ဆိုသည့္ သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚခဲ့ျခင္းအတြက္လည္း စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ျဖစ္မိေၾကာင္း မစၥစ္ကလင္တန္က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ဇြန္လအတြင္း၌လည္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏ်ဴကလီးယားလက္နက္ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး စီမံခ်က္မ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည့္ သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတခုကို္ အယ္လ္ဂ်ာဇီးယား ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားမွ ထုတ္လႊင့္သြားခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းထုတ္လႊင့္ခ်က္ကို နအဖအစိုးရက ျငင္းပယ္ခဲ့သည္။
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