Kim Jong-Il to visit Seoul in March

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, chairman of its National Defense Commission, will visit Seoul next March for a second encounter with South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, Russia's Itar-Tass News Agency reported Monday.

The report quoted a well-informed diplomatic source in Moscow as saying that the two Koreas had agreed on the second inter-Korean summit meeting in Seoul next March, which might produce a joint statement on reducing troop numbers at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas.