North Korea's state security minister to attend high-level meeting in Russia, KCNA says
North Korea's minister of state security, Ri Chang Dae, left Pyongyang on Monday to attend a meeting of senior security officials in Russia, the North's KCNA state news agency reported on Tuesday.
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