U.S. Envoy to Visit DPRK: FM of DPRK

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U.S. Envoy to Visit DPRK: FM of DPRK

DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun said on Thursday that Pyongyang and Washington had agreed to reopen a dialogue and Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly would visit the DPRK.

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DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun said on Thursday that Pyongyang and Washington had agreed to reopen a dialogue and Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly would visit the DPRK.

There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials on the possible visit, which follows a ground-breaking informal chat between Paek and Secretary of State Colin Powell at an Asia Pacific security forum on Wednesday.

Paek was confident Kelly, who is responsible for Asia-Pacific affairs, would come to Pyongyang as part of a diplomatic drive to lower tensions on the Korean Peninsula, but he did not know when.

"We agreed with the United States to reopen the dialogue and the specific date, maybe, the United States will inform us very soon. And he will come," Paek told reporters when asked about Kelly's trip, postponed after a deadly naval clash between the Koreas in June.

The United States postponed but never canceled a proposed trip by Kelly in mid-July after DPR sank a South Korean patrol boat on June 29.

Source: Agencies

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