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US to Meet DPRK This Month: Powell

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday the United States will hold talks with DPRK this month but he did not say where or at what level they would be conducted.


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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday the United States will hold talks with DPRK this month but he did not say where or at what level they would be conducted.

"We will be meeting with them this month but I haven't said where," Powell told reporters on his plane to a Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting in British Columbia, Canada.

The Korean media have speculated the United States plans to send envoy Jack Pritchard to Pyongyang to renew the high-level dialogue with DPRK that ended when the Bush administration took office in January 2001.

Asked if the talks would take place in Pyongyang, Powell said: "I can't answer that ... We will be meeting with them this month somewhere to keep this process moving along."

DPRK indicated months ago that it was interested in resuming the dialogue, even on the terms proposed by the Bush administration, which has added DPRK's conventional military forces to its proposed agenda.

Powell said: "There was a report the other day out of North Korea that the U.S. was not responding. We will be responding in the very near future and then we will see what the step is after that."

Low-level contacts between the United States and DPRK have continued in the first 17 months of the Bush administration through the DPRK mission to the United Nations in New York.

Powell did not say whether the next talks would be a continuation of that or would take place at a higher level.












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