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Hill to Attend Informal North Korea Talks Next Week
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill yesterday said he plans to discuss terms for verifying North Korean denuclearization at an informal meeting in Hill represented the "There will be some kind of six-party event in Singapore," he said, referring to the ASEAN regional conference set to begin in the country. "We look forward to the verification discussion, but we haven’t worked out on when and how." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and top foreign officials from the four other nations handling North Korean nuclear diplomacy plan to attend the ASEAN forum, but Hill said he was uncertain whether they would discuss North Korean denuclearization on the meeting’s sidelines. "I don’t know. We are waiting for what the Chinese are saying," he said (Yonhap I/Daum, July 17). Elsewhere, former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun yesterday said he would return classified government information taken to his private estate on computer hard drives before his term in office had ended. Current South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has sought in recent weeks to recover the electronic document collection, which is believed to contain closely guarded details about South Korea’s policy on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. “I’ll return all copies of (classified) documents to the government. Regarding the method of return, I’ll accept the government’s choice,” Roh wrote in a letter to Lee. “(The government) has already asked (the prosecution to open a probe on seven or eight of my aides. Under such circumstances, I cannot resist any longer” (Yonhap News Agency II, July 17).
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