Overview

• North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong arrived in New York to attend the 80th UN General Assembly, according to updated reports from Yonhap citing KCNA.
• He is scheduled to speak Monday, the final day of the high-level debate, as announced by North Korea’s state media.
• Media accounts tracked his route through Beijing aboard North Korea’s flag carrier, Air Koryo, en route to the United States.
• It is the first high-level delegation North Korea has sent to the General Assembly since 2019, a period when its UN permanent representative delivered the annual address.
• If the speech proceeds as planned, it would be the first UNGA address by a North Korean official dispatched directly from Pyongyang in seven years.