Kim Jong Un will attend the meeting in Tehran

Kim Jong-un, according to Iranian authorities to come on a state visit to Iran next week.

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Photo: KCNA / Reuters

Iran says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will participate in a meeting of the Organization of Non-Aligned Nations (NAM) in Tehran next week.

 According to the spokesman of the meeting, Mohammad-Reza Forqani, Kim has chosen Iran as his first state visit abroad.
 
Forqani think that Kim's visit may strengthen ties between North Korea and Iran.
NAM is an international organization of 120 states and 21 observer states which consider themselves neutral to the major power blocs.
 
The meeting in Iran will run from 26th-31. august and Iran will take over Egypt as the group's presidency.
Kim Jong-un took over as the country's supreme leader after his father Kim Jong-il died in December last year.

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