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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis visited Pyongyang on October 30 to discuss security issues and re-establish political dialogue between Switzerland and North Korea. During his visit, he met with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui to regularize political relations and address security challenges in the region. The Swiss diplomatic office in Pyongyang, which opened formally on October 19, now reports to the embassy in Beijing.
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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis visited Pyongyang on October 29 and 30, marking the first such visit by a Swiss government minister since 2003. During his two-day trip, Cassis discussed regularizing political relations and re-establishing dialogue with North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and Secretary Jo Yong Won of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party. The reopening of Switzerland’s diplomatic office in Pyongyang on October 19 aims to facilitate direct engagement between the two countries amid regional security challenges. The Swiss embassy in Beijing retains responsibility for diplomatic and consular relations with North Korea, while the new office focuses on humanitarian cooperation and political dialogue. This visit seeks to maintain contact with both North Korea and South Korea as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula.

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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Friday that he had discussed security challenges affecting European and Asian nations with North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during a visit to Pyongyang for the formal reopening of Switzerland's diplomatic office there.
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Swiss foreign minister discusses security issues with North Korea ZURICH, Oct 30 - asserted
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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Friday that he had discussed security challenges affecting European and Asian nations with North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during a visit to Pyongyang for the formal reopening of Switzerland's diplomatic office there. asserted
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The two discussed regularising political relations and re-establishing political dialogue between the countries, Cassis wrote on X • asserted
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Security on the Korean Peninsula and broader Eurasian security challenges were also topics of the talks, he wrote • asserted
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The Pyongyang office, operational since October 19, reports to the Swiss embassy in Beijing, which retains responsibility for diplomatic and consular relations with North Korea REUTERS asserted
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