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Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and other staff of the wire service arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported. They are apparently in Pyongyang to discuss the opening of a bureau there as well as how to transmit high-definition images from the electronically backward country.
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In June last year, Curly met with KCNA chief Kim Byong-ho at AP headquarters in New York, and signed a memorandum of understanding over the opening of the Pyongyang bureau. Curly said at the time that AP planned to open the bureau early this year.
AP's television affiliate APTN opened a video news bureau in Pyongyang in 2006, but this would be the first western media bureau handling text and photo news. |