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    July 29, 2011

US, North Korean Diplomats Arrive for Second Day of Talks

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   North Korean diplomats return to the Ronald H. Brown United States
   Mission to the United Nations, July 28, 2011, in New York
   Photo: AP
   North Korean diplomats return to the Ronald H. Brown United States
   Mission to the United Nations, July 28, 2011, in New York

   U.S. and North Korean diplomats have arrived to start a second day of
   talks in New York Friday.
   Neither delegation spoke to journalists as they entered the U.S.
   mission to the United Nations.
   After the first session Thursday, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan,
   the head of the North Korean delegation, called the atmosphere good.
   The State Department called the talks serious and business-like. The
   United States says the talks are aimed at seeing if North Korea is
   ready to meet its commitment to give up its nuclear weapons program.
   In Seoul, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac said he is not
   very optimistic that the meeting will yield quick results.
   Special envoy Stephen Bosworth leads the U.S. side to the first direct
   senior-level talks between the two countries in 18 months.
   The United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been
   trying to persuade the North to give up its nuclear weapons. The North
   pulled out of six-nation talks on its nuclear program in 2008 and
   tested a second nuclear weapon months later.

   Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.

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