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DPRK railways minister en route to Uzbekistan for conference: Russian embassy

Jang Hyuk to attend a ministerial meeting of Organization for Cooperation of Railways from June 5-7
Oliver Hotham May 27, 2019
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DPRK railways minister en route to Uzbekistan for conference: Russian embassy
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North Korea’s minister of railways Jang Hyuk has departed Pyongyang bound for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang revealed in a post on its Facebook page on Monday.

He is expected to take part in an annual ministerial meeting of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD) from June 5-7.

Jang met with Russian ambassador to the DPRK Alexander Matsegora and an unnamed advisor from the Chinese embassy to the DPRK ahead of his departure, the embassy said, in talks which saw the two discuss “the current issues of Russian-Korean cooperation in the field of transport.”

The minister is set to travel to

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