From the Bangkok Post:
North Korea, one of the world’s most reclusive nations, will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meeting in Singapore next month, Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said.
Mr Yeo made the announcement last week during his meeting with Thai journalists on an exchange programme.
Asean foreign ministers agreed to invite North Korea to sign Asean’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) during an informal conference in Singapore in February.
Pyongyang joined the Asean Regional Forum in 2000 and has diplomatic relations with Asean nations. If North Korea signs the TAC, it would be considered a great advancement for peace-building in the Asia-Pacific region.
TAC is a regional code of conduct which encourages the peaceful resolution of conflict through dialogue.
TAC has been adopted by 24 countries, including the 10 Asean nations.
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North Korea will attend ASEAN meeting
Bangkok Post
Anchalee Kongrut
6/16/2008
