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| U.S. and North Korea held secret meeting in March | |
| 2013-04-10 | |
Clifford Hart, the State Department's special envoy to the now-defunct six-party talks, met North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations Han Song-ryol in mid-March, just before North Korea began its latest string of provocative statements and actions, diplomatic sources said. The meeting was done through what's known in diplomatic circles as the "New York channel," the most common method of direct communication between Washington and Pyongyang. No real progress was made during the meeting and no new offers were made by the U.S. officials present, the sources said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |