A top North Korean official was holding talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports-strongly denied by both countries-that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri met Choe Thae-Bok, chairman of communist North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly discussed efforts to boost relations between the two nations, the official SANA news agency reported. The two men spoke of the "co-operative relations and historic friendship" between their nations, it said. The visit follows an Israeli air raid on Syria last month that Western media reports have said targeted a nuclear site being developed with North Korean help.