Syrian President Bashar Assad is planning to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in what would be Kim's first summit with a foreign head of state in Pyongyang, the North's state-run media said Sunday.
The timing of any potential meeting was unclear, but the North's Korean Central News Agency quoted Assad as saying: "I am going to visit the DPRK and meet HE Kim Jong Un," using the acronym for the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "HE" stands for "his excellency."
Sunday's report said Assad had made the remarks while receiving the credentials of the new North Korean ambassador to Syria during a ceremony Wednesday.