Updated October 27, 2008 22:14:42
Burma's foreign minister Nyan Win arrived in North Korea on Monday, becoming the most senior Burmese government official known to have visited the country since ties were severed in 1983 in the wake of a bomb attack in Rangoon in which North Korean agents were implicated.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reports that Nyan Win was greeted at Pyongyang's airport by North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il and other officials.
The development comes a year and a half after the two governments agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations.
They fell out after North Korean agents attacked a South Korean delegation in Yangon on October 9, 1983, during an official visit by then South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan.
More than 20 people were killed in the bomb attack, including 17 South Koreans, four of them ministers, and more than 40 people were wounded.
Mr Chun was saved because his car had been delayed in traffic.
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