Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
Time: 10:30-10:32 A.M.

1. Minister’s Schedule

Minister Kim Yung Ho will attend the cabinet meeting on April 22 at 10 A.M.

On April 23, at 3 P.M., Minister Kim will attend the plenary session of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs & Unification Committee.

2. Vice Minister’s Schedule

Vice Minister Kim Soo Kyung will attend the vice ministers’ conference on April 24 at 9 A.M.

On April 25, at 10 A.M., Vice Minister Kim will visit a single-parent household of a North Korean defector to offer words of comfort on the occasion of ‘family month.’

* The month of May in Korea is often referred to as ‘family month’ with Children’s Day and Parents’ Day celebrated on May 5th and 8th respectively.

3. Q&A

Q. North Korean state media reported today that a friendly gathering between Russian and North Korean youth was held in Pyeongyang. The report mentioned that the youth will be eternally united as comrades and will be invincible. Could this exchange be related to the North’s dispatch of troops to Russia? Also, has there been similar exchanges in the past?

A. There is no particular comment to offer regarding your question. Whether the North and Russia have had such exchanges in the past needs to be looked into. However, given the recent exchanges and cooperation between the two sides, the event does not seem especially unusual.