Albright Plans Meeting With N. Korea Official
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THURMONT, Md. — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plans to meet with North Korea’s foreign minister, ratcheting up the U.S. dialogue with what was once the most isolated country in the world.
Albright hopes to see Paek Nam Sun while she is in Bangkok, Thailand, where she is to attend a meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries grouped as the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations that begins next Monday, a State Department official said Sunday.
The high-level contact with North Korea reflects an improvement in relations between the United States and a country long denounced by Washington as being headed by a “rogue regime.”
Albright and others in the Clinton administration still describe North Korea as a potential foe and a prime reason for considering an expensive system to defend the United States against missile attack.
Albright said in June that she might use talks with a senior North Korean official to try to extend a freeze on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and curb the spread of the country’s missile technology.
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