U.S.-North Korean Talks 'Businesslike'
WASHINGTON - A preliminary meeting between North Korea and the United States ended in New York on Wednesday with no announcement that there will be another, but no discouraging words.The contact was the first since the inauguration of the Bush administration.
A State Department official said that Wednesday's meeting between Jack Pritchard, the U.S. special envoy for Korea Peace Talks, and Ri Hyong Chol, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, had been "businesslike" and that it had been a productive beginning for future talks.
A diplomatic source in New York indicated that future talks between the two countries would be led by Mr. Pritchard and Kim Gye-gwan, North Korea's Vice Foreign minister.
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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