North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong-ho has been unusually busy this year at the UN General Assembly in New York.<br /> 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.<br />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.<br />Meetings with foreign ministers on the sidelines of the General Assembly are very rare for North Korea.<br />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. <br />
