Experts say that former President Jimmy Carter to visit the DPRK and the DPRK and the U.S. government is willing to touch
WASHINGTON, August 25 call (AP Jiang Guopeng) in Washington Centre for Strategic and International Studies North Korea expert Michael Green 25 in an interview with Xinhua, said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visit to the DPRK and the Korean government is willing to suggest that Obama contacted.
Green said: "Jimmy Carter to North Korea is very interesting, it said, suggest that Obama and the Korean government is willing to have some contacts. But not the United States a diplomatic breakthrough high expectations."
According to North Korean media reports, after Carter arrived in Pyongyang on the 25th meeting of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong-nam.
Maketuona 25, State Department spokesman, said at a press conference, Carter as a "private humanitarian mission" to North Korea. But Daytona refused to disclose any other details about the visit.
According to North Korean media reports, after Carter arrived in Pyongyang on the 25th meeting of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong-nam.
the United States, "Foreign Policy" magazine 23, said on its Web site, Carter visited North Korea as a private citizen to bring a release detained U.S. citizens.
the U.S. citizen detainees 名叫戈梅斯, on January 25 this year, illegal immigrants detained by the DPRK. Korean central court (the court) on April 6 as "hostile to the Korean national sin" and "crime of illegal immigration," sentenced to 8 years Gomes "correctional labor" sentences, in addition to a 70 million yuan towards dollars (about 700,000 U.S. dollars) in Bong .
2009 年 3 months, two American journalists suspected illegal immigrants were detained by North Korea, in June to "crimes hostile to the Korean nation" and "illegal immigrant crime" by the Korean central court sentenced to 12 years in prison inmates. In the same year on August 4, former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the North Korean capital Pyongyang, 20-hour "blitz" visit to promote the release of two American journalists return home. (End)
> Related reports:
North Korean leader Kim meets former U.S. President Carter
former U.S. President Carter, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrived in North Korea towards the airport welcome
Carter may be withheld by the United States and North Korea to come back
