UN envoy meets DPRK senior official

UN special envoy, Lynn Pascoe, met with the Presidium president of the DPRK's Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong Nam,in Pyongyang on Thursday.

Pascoe delivered a verbal message from UN chief Ban Ki-moon, as well as a leather-bound copy of the UN Charter. As the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Pascoe's trip to Pyongyang is the first by a high-level UN official since 2004.

UN spokesman, Martin Nesirky, says Pascoe and the other three members of the delegation are in Pyongyang until Friday. They'll then leave for Beijing,

Seoul and Tokyo. Arriving at Pyongyang's international airport on Tuesday, Pascoe said that he and DPRK officials would mainly discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the United Nations and the DPRK.

U.N. political chief B. Lynn Pascoe, left, poses for a photo with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, which is DPRK's parliament, before talks in Pyongyang, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN)