The wife of late South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung will visit North Korea next month, his foundation said today, and possibly meet with leader Kim Jong-Un.


The Kim Dae-Jung Peace Centre in Seoul said the agreement on dates for the four-day visit by 93-year-old Lee Hee-Ho was reached following talks with officials in North Korea.


Lee has visited the North three times -- the last occasion being to pay her respects following the death of former leader Kim Jong-Il in December 2011. She is the widow of Kim Dae-Jung, who instituted the "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea that led to an historic summit with Kim Jong-Il in 2000.


It was not immediately clear if Lee would meet Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong-Un, who had initially extended Lee an invitation to visit last year, after she sent a wreath marking the third anniversary of his father's death.


The trip will ostensibly be a humanitarian one, with Lee planning to visit a children's hospital, a maternity home and an orphanage in Pyongyang.