HOLY SEE DELEGATION TO VISIT NORTH KOREA THIS MONTH

Rome, 19 (NE) A delegation of the Holy See will visit North Korea in October, according to a news report of the Catholic Asian news agency UCANews. The visit would visit North Korea to discuss and organize the Church's humanitarian work in this country, suffering long ago from continuing shortages of food, medicine and other basic necessities. According to Father John Kim Jong-su, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea, it is also expected that the Vatican delegation will discuss with North Korean officials the possibility of a visit of Pope John Paul II to the communist nation. The Church official recently returned from a visit to North Korea made by a delegation of 42 South Korean social and religious leaders. A Vatican delegation went to the communist part of the country in January 1996 to deliver a nominal contribution from Pope John Paul II to North Korea's aid coordination committee to help flood victims.

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