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Top US Diplomat Considers Trip to South Korea

The US State Department said Monday that Secretary of State Colin Powell is considering a trip to South Korea in the near future but nothing has been finalized.

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The US State Department said Monday that Secretary of State Colin Powell is considering a trip to South Korea in the near future but nothing has been finalized.

"He has talked about going and he's expressed his intention to go, but we haven't come to the point where we could announce any trip or really confirm the actual plans," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters.

He refused to confirm South Korean media reports that Powell may travel to Seoul to attend President-elect Roh Moo-Hyun's inauguration on Feb. 25.

According to senior US officials, if the secretary decides to make the trip, he may include some other countries in East Asia in his itinerary.

The Bush administration has been widely criticized for not taking initiatives to solve the nuclear issue of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Washington said it will eventually talk to Pyongyang over the nuclear issue but insisted the talks beheld in a multilateral setting.

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