A Korea foundation will visit Pyongyang this week in order to hold a joint event to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the heroic death of Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun who died while fighting for the peninsula's independence from colonial Japan.
The Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean issues said they gave approval for the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Society's plan to visit the North from Tuesday through Saturday for the joint commemoration of the independence activist.
About 10 officials from the foundation will travel to Pyongyang via China and hold the event there before heading northward to Haeju, Ahn's birthplace, and Nampo, according to the ministry.
The officials also plan to discuss ways to recover historic sites related with the independence fighter, according to the ministry.
Ahn Jung-geun (1877-1910) is most famous for his assassination of the Korean Peninsula's first Japanese governor-general, Hirobumi Ito, in Harbin, China, in October 1909. He was later executed at a Japanese prison in China and has since gone down as one of the greatest patriots in Korean history. (Yonhap)
The Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean issues said they gave approval for the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Society's plan to visit the North from Tuesday through Saturday for the joint commemoration of the independence activist.
About 10 officials from the foundation will travel to Pyongyang via China and hold the event there before heading northward to Haeju, Ahn's birthplace, and Nampo, according to the ministry.
The officials also plan to discuss ways to recover historic sites related with the independence fighter, according to the ministry.
Ahn Jung-geun (1877-1910) is most famous for his assassination of the Korean Peninsula's first Japanese governor-general, Hirobumi Ito, in Harbin, China, in October 1909. He was later executed at a Japanese prison in China and has since gone down as one of the greatest patriots in Korean history. (Yonhap)
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