In 1994, Seoul launched its first Visit Korea Year after four years of preparation and aggressive marketing.
Mr. Kerry will visit South Korea on Friday, China on Saturday and Japan on Sunday.
Mr Kerry is also due to visit South Korea as part of his trip to Asia next week.
President Obama is scheduled to visit South Korea next week on a trip to Asia that he begins on Thursday.
The Americans also will visit North Korea's national monuments, the SEK animation studio and a new skate park in Pyongyang.
For those few international observers and journalists who have been allowed to visit North Korea, the rally was typical fare.
My visit to Korea also reflects the enduring strength of our alliance.
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We also look forward to our state visit to Korea next year and to visiting South Africa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
Dr. Faust, who will also visit South Korea, said China is the "largest supplier" of international students enrolled at the university's campus, in Cambridge, Mass.
Affluent urban Chinese who have travelled to other parts of Asia now visit North Korea for its rarity value, and for a taste of what they themselves have escaped from.
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During the call, Bush reportedly confirmed he would visit South Korea in October and discussed the U.S. plan for a missile shield with Kim, said South Korean presidential spokesman Park Joon-young.
My visit to Korea reflects the fact that the United States is leading again in the Asia Pacific -- a region that will affect American security and prosperity in the 21st century like no other.
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Schmidt, who is the highest-profile U.S. business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago, has not spoken publicly about the reasons behind the journey to North Korea.
Turning to international news, Zhang Liangui, North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, welcomes a visit to North Korea by US basketball stars as well as earlier visits by the head of Google and the New York Philharmonic, but dismisses any notion of "basketball diplomacy".
Back in 1972, the head of the kcia, South Korea's intelligence agency, made a secret visit to see North Korea's "GreatLeader, " the late Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il's father.
The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, is planning a visit to North Korea, South Korean officials say.
The possible visit to North Korea comes as the Obama administration weighs greater engagement with the reclusive country.
The US state department has said a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt is unhelpful.
But he dismissed speculation that it was connected to the recent visit to North Korea by the head of Google, Eric Schmidt.
That's what Bill Clinton's visit gave North Korea: a level of respect the North Korean state so desperately craves but rarely gets.
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Finance Secretary John Swinney is to make his second trade visit to South Korea and Japan in just over a year to promote Scottish businesses.
The development comes at the end of the U.S. president's tour of Asia, which included stops in Japan, Singapore and China before his visit to South Korea.
The idea has been in the works for some time, in the hope of encouraging the northern Mr Kim to make a promised but much delayed visit to South Korea.
After a visit to North Korea, the US politician, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, said North Korea agreed to let international monitors back into the country to inspect its nuclear sites.
South Korean media reported on Thursday that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was seeking a visit to North Korea that may be part of a move to bring Mr. Bae back.
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Mr. Iijima was a top adviser to former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and was deeply involved in organizing his visit to North Korea for talks with then-leader Kim Jong Il in the early 2000s, which led to the release of several Japanese abductees.
During a historic visit to North Korea in 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong Il, famously an NBA fan, with a basketball signed by Jordan that later went on display in the huge cave at Mount Myohyang that holds gifts to the leaders.
Mr. Hecker, the Stanford physicist, estimated that the centrifuges he saw on his Nov. 12 visit to North Korea's Yongybyon nuclear complex could produce around two tons of low-enriched uranium per year, or around 88 pounds of highly enriched uranium, nearly enough for a single atomic weapon.
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Even after North Korea announced its intention to launch a satellite, China entertained a visit in March by North Korea's prime minister, Kim Yong Il, with all the usual honour-guard pomp.
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