Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia is planning to visit North Korea, said his press officer, Father Alexander Volkov. « There is talk of Patriarch Kirill going to North Korea, but it is still too early to mention specific dates », Fr Alexander Volkov told Interfax. It was a comment on Metropolitan Sergius’s words, the patriarchal exarch in South-East Asia (Moscow Patriarchate), who told the press last Sunday in Bangkok that