{"id":166512,"date":"2018-06-07T05:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166512"},"modified":"2018-06-07T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:49:41","slug":"singapore-foreign-minister-to-visit-n-korea-ahead-of-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/07\/singapore-foreign-minister-to-visit-n-korea-ahead-of-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore foreign minister to visit N. Korea ahead of summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166516\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vivian_Balakrishnan_-_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166516\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vivian_Balakrishnan_-_2010.jpg\" alt=\"Singapore's Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement that Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday at the invitation of North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.(Photo By: Vivian Balakrishnan, CC BY 3.0) \" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vivian_Balakrishnan_-_2010.jpg 333w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Vivian_Balakrishnan_-_2010-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singapore&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement that Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday at the invitation of North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=16951842\">.(Photo By: Vivian Balakrishnan, CC BY 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SINGAPORE- The foreign minister of Singapore is making a two-day visit to North Korea ahead of next week&#8217;s U.S.-North Korea summit in the Southeast Asian city-state.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement that Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will be in Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday at the invitation of North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.<\/p>\n<p>Balakrishnan will also meet Kim Yong Nam, the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly. Kim Yong Nam is a senior official who went to South Korea as part of his country&#8217;s delegation to the Winter Olympics in February.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not indicate what would be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to meet President Donald Trump on June 12 at a resort hotel in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE- The foreign minister of Singapore is making a two-day visit to North Korea ahead of next week&#8217;s U.S.-North Korea &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}