A senior U.S. official, who is specialized in Korean affairs, had preliminary talks with officials of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over a full declaration of the latter's nuclear program, the State Department said Thursday.
Sung Kim, the director of the State Department's Office of Korean Affairs, "has had some preliminary meetings with officials at the (DPRK) Ministry of Foreign Affairs," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
"He expects to have some more tomorrow," McCormack added without giving details.
Kim is expected to return home on Feb. 3.
Kim's visit to the DPRK occurs at a time when the United States has kept complaining that the DPRK failed to announce "a complete and correct declaration" of its nuclear programs.
Under an agreement reached in October 2007 at the six-party talks, the DPRK agreed to disable its key nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex, and to declare all other nuclear programs by the end of the year.
The six parties refers to the United States, the DPRK, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The DPRK has denied that it had missed the deadline to submit that declaration, saying "other participating nations delay the fulfillment of their commitments, the DPRK is compelled to adjust the tempo of the disablement of some nuclear facilities on the principle of 'action for action'."
Source: Xinhua
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