The widow of former President Kim Dae-jung visited a mountain in North Korea's northwestern province Friday amid a lack of clues over a possible meeting with the North's leader Kim Jong-un, her aides said.
  

Lee Hee-ho, 93, who was the South's first lady during Kim's five-year tenure until 2003, embarked on the schedule for day three of her rare trip to the North, hoping that the visit could pave the way for inter-Korean dialogue and cooperation in a landmark year.
  

Also on Friday, she plans to visit an exhibition center and temple located on Mount Myohyang in North Pyongan Province, about a three hours' drive north of Pyongyang, according to the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center, the organizer of the trip.
  

On display at the center is a set of presents that the North's late founder Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, the father of the current leader, received from foreign political figures or diplomats. Lee's itinerary also includes a visit to Bohyun Temple, a national treasure of North Korea.
  

But it is still not clear whether she will be able to meet with the North's leader, who invited Lee to the North.
  

Experts have not excluded a possible meeting at Mount Myohyang as the North's young leader and his wife Ri Sol-ju are known to frequent the mountain where they have a special villa. A flight strip has also been recently built some 3 kilometers northwest of the exhibition center at the mountain.
  

Lee's visit is in the spotlight on the hopes that it may help ease lingering tension on the divided peninsula, sparked by the North's nuclear and missile tests. The two Koreas have not held high-level talks since February 2014.
  

On Thursday, Lee visited homes for orphans and the elderly and delivered knitted scarves and medicine to North Korean children, according to the peace center.
  

There is still the expectation that she could deliver a message of peace and reconciliation if she meets with the North's young leader.
  

But some experts said that Lee's possible meeting with Kim may not help repair the long-frayed inter-Korean ties, given the North's reluctance to hold talks with Seoul and give up its nuclear weapons.
  

Lee's late husband, who died in 2009, was the architect of the "sunshine" policy that actively pushed for cross-border exchanges and reconciliation. He held the first inter-Korean summit with then North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in 2000. At that time, Lee accompanied her husband to Pyongyang.
  

She briefly met with the North's current leader in December 2011 when she visited Pyongyang to pay tribute upon the death of his father Kim Jong-il. But the trip was limited to offering condolences and no other matters were discussed at that time. (Yonhap)