USA: JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND UNITED STATES HOLD MEETING TO DISCUSS BILATERAL TALKS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND NORTH KOREA

Record ID: 337654

  • Title: USA: JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND UNITED STATES HOLD MEETING TO DISCUSS BILATERAL TALKS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND NORTH KOREA
  • Date: 8th March 1997
  • Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 8, 1997) (RTV-ACCESS ALL) 1. LAS EXTERIOR OF UN PLAZA HOTEL TILT DOWN TO ENTRANCEAND SIGN ON WALL (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV MEETING ROOM WITH OFFICIALS ARRIVING 0.19 3. SLV PHOTOGRAPHERS 0.23 4. SLV CHARLES KARTMAN, US ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EAST ASIAN AFFAIRS WITH RYOZO KATO, JAPANESE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ASIAN AFFAIRS AND YU MYUNG HWAN, SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR GENERAL OF NORTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS (2 SHOTS) 0.33 6. SV PHOTOGRAPHERS 0.35 7. SV REPRESENTATIVES (LEFT TO RIGHT) OF JAPAN (RYOZO KATO), SOUTH KOREA (YU MYUNG HWAN) AND UNITED STATES (CHARLES KARTMAN) 0.40 8. SCU KARTMAN, YU AND KATO 0.46 9. SLV KARTMAN, YU AND KATO SHAKING HANDS 0.56 10. SV MEDIA 0.58 11. SLV DELEGATES SEATED AT CONFERENCE TABLE 1.00 12. SCU OF KARTMAN 1.04 13. SCU OF KATO 1.06 14. SCU OF YU 1.12 15. SLV MEETING IN PROGRESS 1.20 Initials S3 P3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 1997 12:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Reuters ID: LVA3O0HJMA0GYAVTCQTWLFBMARAS
  • Story Text: - INTRO: Officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea met in a New York's UN Plaza Hotel on Saturday (March 8) to discuss Friday's rare bilateral talks between the United States and North Korea, which both sides called productive.

    The United States will brief a number of nations on details stemming from the talks, a U.S. State Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He did not specify which nations would be involved.

    Friday's meeting, the highest official-level meeting in more than a year, was seen as an opportunity to take stock of the issues concerning the United States and North Korea, the U.S. official said.

    The two sides agreed to work in the weeks ahead on three particular issues -- nonproliferation of missiles, the recovery of remains of missing U.S. servicemen from the Korean War and the establishment of liaison offices in each country.

    The U.S. official called the talks, which lasted almost 11 hours, "very useful and businesslike." Kim Gye Gwan, vice minister for foreign affairs and head of the North Korean delegation, said through a translator that the talks were "very serious" and "the both sides ... have agreed to further contacts in order to pursue further progress in the relations between the countries." Saturday's briefing began after U.S., Japanese and South Korean officials appeared for a photo opportunity for journalists.

    Officials gave no details of the agenda.

    Among the meetings and briefings this past week in New York involving the United States, North Korea and South Korea, the State Department official said the most significant talks were on Wednesday, when U.S. and South Korean officials briefed North Korea on details of proposed four-way talks, which would include China, to forge a new agreement to replace the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.

    That meeting aroused new hopes that the isolationist Communist nation would join in peace talks with South Korea.

    The United States delegation has been led all week by Charles Kartman, acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs. Ryozo Kato, Director General of Asian Affairs, led the Japanese delegation at Saturday's meeting.


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