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Former top US officials meet North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator
US academics and former senior officials met North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator Ri Yong Ho in Singapore yesterday to get a feel for each other’s positions on Pyongyang’s nuclear missile programmes.
Leon Sigal, who is director of the Northeast Asia Co-operative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council NGO, explained: “It’s two ways of taking each other’s temperature.”
The US and North Korea have no formal diplomatic ties, but former US officials occasionally meet Pyongyang diplomats.
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