Former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan will visit North Korea on Wednesday.

Lee is scheduled to stay in Pyongyang until Sunday and will be accompanied by fellow legislators from the ruling Uri Party.

Uri Party spokesman Suh Hae-suk said Tuesday that the former prime minister’s visit was planned after an invitation from the North’s Council of National Reconciliation.

Suh added that Lee is scheduled to meet with the North’s parliamentary leader Kim Yong-nam and hold extensive talks on the implementation of the February 13th nuclear agreement and establishing a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.

Suh said Lee will stop by China on his way back home and meet with top Chinese government officials to discuss the six-way nuclear talks and inter-Korean issues.

Meanwhile, officials from the presidential office and the Unification Ministry said Lee is traveling to the North as a member of the Uri Party and not as a special presidential envoy.

Lee visited the communist state in 2000 when he accompanied then President Kim Dae-jung to the first inter-Korean summit in June.