Carr stops North Korean visit to Canberra THE Gillard government has intervened to stop North Korean diplomats visiting Australia this weekend in the wake of the secretive state's latest nuclear test. Pyongyang officials were due to visit Canberra to try and secure real estate to re-establish an embassy. But Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the government has told them to reschedule after the hermit kingdom admitted to a third underground nuclear test earlier this week. "We postponed the arrival of North Korean diplomats in Australia as a gesture following this detonation," he told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Thursday. They were due to arrive this weekend. Senator Carr says the government still intends to allow North Korea to reopen its mission, which was closed in January 2008, apparently because of financial pressures. "We still adhere to the view that there's value in having a North Korean diplomatic presence here," he said. In particular so we can speak directly about these concerns for peace and security and stability in East Asia and second, so we can convey to them directly our concern about human rights in North Korea. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Senator Carr condemned North Korea's nuclear test on Tuesday.