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North Korean, U.S. Officials to Meet in New York
U.S. and North Korean officials have agreed to meet next month in New York to discuss Pyongyang’s alleged financial misconduct, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Feb. 23). U.S. technical experts are scheduled on March 7 to brief a North Korean Foreign Ministry delegation on U.S. laws applied in November when Washington took financial regulatory action in response to counterfeiting and other alleged crimes. The briefing was arranged “to respond to issues and concerns that the North Koreans have raised with regard to our actions,” State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said yesterday. Li Gun, chief of the Foreign Ministry’s North American division, is expected to lead the North Korean delegation to meet with U.S. experts from the State and Treasury departments and the National Security Council, according to AP (George Gedda, Associated Press/USA Today, Feb. 24). Meanwhile, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung yesterday announced a delay in his planned trip to North Korea, the Yonhap News Agency reported (see GSN, Feb. 1). The opposition Grand National Party accused Kim of planning the April visit as a pre-election ploy to benefit the ruling Uri Party. He has postponed the trip until June, according to Yonhap. “I made the final decision after finding out what the general public thinks of it,” Kim said. “I didn’t think it was good for any political party to have problems because of my visit, so I reached the conclusion that it would be too early to make the trip in April,” he said (Yonhap News Agency, Feb. 24).
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