N.Korea, Myanmar restore ties

MYANMAR: Myanmar and North Korea restored diplomatic ties on Thursday, 24 years after Yangon broke them off because Pyongyang agents blew up a South Korean government delegation visiting the former Burma.

“North Korea and Myanmar have formally signed an agreement to restore diplomatic ties,” Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu told reporters after meeting with his counterpart, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong-il, in the commercial capital, Yangon.

The two nations are among the poorest and most isolated in the world and both face Western sanctions — Myanmar for rights abuses and North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests.

Yangon, Thursday, Reuters