SOUTH KOREA: UNITED STATES DELEGATION BRIEFS SOUTH KOREAN OFFICIALS ABOUT RECENT TRIP TO NORTH KOREA

Record ID: 337978

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: UNITED STATES DELEGATION BRIEFS SOUTH KOREAN OFFICIALS ABOUT RECENT TRIP TO NORTH KOREA
  • Date: 13th January 2004
  • Summary: (W3) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JANUARY 12, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV INTERIOR OF UNIFICATION MINISTRY; SCU SIGN OF MINISTRY OF UNIFICATION; SCU SIGN OF MEETING ROOM WHERE BRIEFING BETWEEN U.S. DELEGATION AND SOUTH KOREAN UNIFICATION MINISTRY OFFICIALS WILL BE HELD (3 SHOTS) 0.14 2. MV KEITH LUSE SURROUNDED BY REPORTERS 0.23 3. MV FRANK JANNUZI SHAKING HANDS WITH PARK CHAN-BONG, SOUTH KOREAN DEPUTY ASSISTANT MINISTER OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY 0.30 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE AIDE FRANK JANNUZI SAYING "On behalf of Mr. Luse and myself, it's a great pleasure for us to be here in South Korea. We look forward to fulsome discussions with your government, about our recent trip to North Korea. And we look forward to the close coordination between our two governments and the peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear problem." 0.47 5. SCU LUSE 0.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVAD360B57M8UNQRV206K2OXKKV3
  • Story Text: A U.S. delegation briefs South Korean officials
    about their recent trip to North Korea.

    The U.S. delegation met with South Korean senior
    officials on Monday (January 12) for further consultations
    after a surprise visit to North Korea's nuclear facilities.

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers Keith Luse
    and Frank Jannuzi met with Park Chan-bong, the deputy
    assistant minister of the South Korean unification ministry
    and expressed their hopes for a peaceful resolution of the
    communist state's nuclear crisis.

    "On behalf of Mr. Luse and myself, it's a great
    pleasure for us to be here in South Korea. We look forward
    to fulsome discussions with your government, about our
    recent trip to North Korea. And we look forward to the
    close coordination between our two governments and the
    peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear problem,"
    said Jannuzi.

    John Lewis, a professor emeritus at Stanford University
    who led the delegation, and other nuclear specialists have
    became the first outsiders allowed into North Korea's
    Yongbyon nuclear complex since U.N. inspectors were
    expelled a year ago.

    The Washington Post reported on Sunday that North Korea
    might have shown a visiting U.S. delegation what the
    communist state described as reprocessed plutonium, ahead
    of the proposed six-way talks, involving the two Koreas,
    the United States, China, Japan and Russia, to resolve the
    crisis.

    North Korea said on Saturday (January 10) it had shown
    a visiting U.S. delegation its "nuclear deterrent" and
    hoped it would provide a basis for a peaceful settlement of
    the row with the United States over its nuclear activities.

    The United States suspects North Korea may have resumed
    reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods into plutonium for use
    in nuclear weapons and has been trying, along with its
    allies, to resume talks with North Korea to end the
    suspected programme.

    Last week, North Korea offered to freeze its nuclear
    activities in a move that has raised hopes for a fresh
    round of talks, which analysts say may happen in February.

    The United States said in October 2002 North Korea had
    admitted to a clandestine uranium enrichment programme to
    build nuclear weapons, which U.S. officials say violated a
    1994 agreement by the North to freeze its nuclear programme.


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