US gov't dismisses rare talks involving NK diplomats as 'Track 2' meeting
2024-09-23 16:27:43 [关于我们] 来源:CCTV News Channel live broadcast
The United States on Sunday dismissed recent talks between North Korean diplomats and former US government officials as a private "Track 2" meeting taking place without the involvement of the US government.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol and the North's UN Ambassador Jang Il-hun held the two days of talks with former US nuclear negotiators Robert Gallucci and Joseph DeTrani, and Asian affairs expert Leon Sigal in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur on Friday and Saturday.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol speaks to reporters in Malaysia on Oct. 22. (Yonhap)The rare meetings drew intense media attention as they could signal Pyongyang's willingness to reopen negotiations with the United States amid heightened tensions in the wake of its fifth nuclear test and a series of missile launches.
But the US government dismissed the talks as an unofficial "Track 2" contact.
"We have seen the reporting on Track 2 meetings. Track 2 meetings are routinely held on a variety of topics around the world and occur independent of US government involvement," State Department spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen said.
Sigal told Yonhap News that the two sides mainly discussed the North's nuclear and missile issues.
The North stuck to its stance that it wants to sign a peace treaty with the US before it stops its nuclear and missile programs. But the US side reiterated its position that scrapping the nuclear program should be put before anything else, Sigal said.
Drawing his own conclusions that there was partial progress in the informal meetings, he said he expects no official dialogue with the North to take place under the Obama administration, but that a new US government needs to reconsider policies toward the North. (Yonhap)
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol and the North's UN Ambassador Jang Il-hun held the two days of talks with former US nuclear negotiators Robert Gallucci and Joseph DeTrani, and Asian affairs expert Leon Sigal in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur on Friday and Saturday.
But the US government dismissed the talks as an unofficial "Track 2" contact.
"We have seen the reporting on Track 2 meetings. Track 2 meetings are routinely held on a variety of topics around the world and occur independent of US government involvement," State Department spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen said.
Sigal told Yonhap News that the two sides mainly discussed the North's nuclear and missile issues.
The North stuck to its stance that it wants to sign a peace treaty with the US before it stops its nuclear and missile programs. But the US side reiterated its position that scrapping the nuclear program should be put before anything else, Sigal said.
Drawing his own conclusions that there was partial progress in the informal meetings, he said he expects no official dialogue with the North to take place under the Obama administration, but that a new US government needs to reconsider policies toward the North. (Yonhap)
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