BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will travel to South Korea this week, the alliance said on Tuesday, at a time when North Korea has intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South. A NATO official said Rasmussen's April 11-13 visit to South Korea, which will be followed by a trip to Japan, was long scheduled and not linked to the situation in North Korea. (Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Justyna Pawlak and Jon Hemming)

NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted Monday that the military alliance had no intention of getting dragged into an EU debate about whether or not to supply arms to the Syrian rebels. "This issue is a European Union question ... I have no intention whatsoever to interfere with this discussion within the EU," Rasmussen told a press conference. EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton urged caution Saturday over a proposal by Britain and France to arm the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen "strongly condemned" a bomb attack Friday on the US embassy in Turkey. "I strongly condemn today's bomb attack on the Embassy of the United States in Ankara, which killed and injured a number of people," Rasmussen said in a statement. "This is an outrageous attack on the diplomatic premises of one Ally, on the territory of another Ally. It shows a reckless disregard for human life and for the inviolability of diplomatic staff," he said.