UN says Ban will not visit Pyongyang next week

A UN spokesman told reporters here Tuesday night that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will not visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) next week. "The secretary-general will not be travelling to the DPRK next week," the spokesman said in an emailed message to the press here. "He will be in New York most of next week and then travel to Malta for the Commonwealth Summit." "From there, he will go to directly to Paris to attend CoP21,"also known as the 2015 Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the spokesman said. COP21 opens at Le Bourget, north Paris, on Nov. 30. More than 40,000 representatives from 195 countries will participate.