North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong-ho has been unusually busy this year at the UN General Assembly in New York.
Ri met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday,... where Pompeo accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's invitation for a fourth visit to Pyeongyang.
Ri, who will give his keynote speech on Saturday,... also sat down with his counterparts from Japan, China, and Russia,... countries highly relevant to the Korean Peninsula.
Meetings with foreign ministers on the sidelines of the General Assembly are very rare for North Korea.
Watchers say its increased dialogue with neighboring nations reflects the recent positive developments on the Korean Peninsula achieved through the regime's series of summits with South Korea and the U.S.