United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will not visit North Korea next week, a U.N. spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday after China's Xinhua news agency reported that he will visit the North on Monday and stay for about four days.
A report by China's state-run Xinhua news agency on Wednesday citing North Korea's official KCNA news agency said Ban would visit for about four days starting Monday, and that his itinerary was now being confirmed.
The U.N. spokesman's office on Monday said it had no comment on the reported planned visit, but that Ban has always said he is ready to play a role to help dialogue and peace on the Korean peninsula.