New Delhi - Burma's Foreign Minister Nyan Win's historic visit to North Korea indicates that the isolated Southeast Asian nation looks out for friends that shares similar ideologies, an analyst said.
Nyan Win on Monday arrived the North Korean capital of Pyong Yang and was greeted by his counterpart Pak Ui Chun. The two foreign ministers met and held talks at the Mansudae Assembly Hall, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a brief despatch.
The KCNA, however, did not provide any further details on the visit of the Burmese foreign minister.
Nyan Win is the first Burmese Foreign minister to set foot in Pyong Yang in 25 years after the two countries severe diplomat relationship in 1983.
Aung Naing Oo, a Burmese analyst based in Thailand, said the visit marks a historic turn for the two countries and indicates that the isolated Burmese generals are seeking friends that share similar ideology.
"The visit [by Nyan Win] is natural, but it indicates a tendency that countries that shares similar ideologies are getting closer," Aung Naing Oo said.
While the warming relationship between the two countries may result in trade resumption as well as supplying of even arms and nuclear technologies, Aung Naing Oo said it does not carry much of a threat.
"It is like the old saying – 'Birds of the same feather flocks together'," he said.
Burma and North Korea severe their relationship in 1983, following a bombing in Rangoon by North Korean secret agents targeting the visiting South Korea's then-President Chun Doo-hwan. He was unhurt, but 21 people were killed, including four South Korean Cabinet ministers.
The two countries, however, agreed to resume diplomatic ties in April 2007. Burma, which faces an arms embargo by the United States and European Union countries, also reportedly has bought weapons from North Korea.
Officials from the two countries have made some diplomatic visits since ties were restored. Burma's sports minister, Brig. Gen. Thura Aye Myint, recently travelled to North Korea. A delegation led by senior military officers also visited the North earlier this year.
