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US, N.Korea officials to meet in New York next week
31 Oct 2008 22:09:28 GMT
 Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Senior U.S. and North Korean diplomats will meet in New York next week, the State Department said on Friday, as the Bush administration seeks to advance an arms-for-disarmament deal with the poor, isolated state.

U.S. diplomat Sung Kim will meet Ri Gun, director general for North American Affairs at North Korea's Foreign Ministry, when the North Korean visits New York next week to attend a meeting arranged by a U.S. nongovernmental group.

The State Department provided no details about the meeting or what might be discussed.

North Korea tested a nuclear device in 2006.

Under a 2005 multilateral deal, North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives. The agreement, however, appeared in danger of collapse this year when North Korea began to reverse the disablement of its Soviet-era nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.

The United States took North Korea off its terrorism blacklist earlier this month after the two countries agreed on a series of measures to verify Pyongyang's nuclear program and Pyongyang resumed disabling the reactor.

The verification steps still have to be formally agreed on by the two Koreas, the United States, Russia, Japan and China -- the six nations struck the 2005 agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)


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