NORTH KOREA: ALBRIGHT CELEBRATES IMPROVING RELATIONSHIP

Описание: (24 Oct 2000) Natural Sound
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U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright celebrated the improving relationship with North Korean officials on Tuesday, the second day of her historic visit to the secretive state.

But Albright acknowledged that it will take time to erase 50 years of enmity and mistrust which date back to the Korean War of the 1950s.

Albright held a second round of talks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il - who on Monday had said he was "really very happy" to have the opportunity to meet the US Secretary of State.

Albright's two day visit to the secretive communist state is the first by a top US official.

It is also a possible curtain raiser for a visit by President Clinton next month which would signal the opening up to the west of one of the last Soviet styled states.

Much of the democratic world object to North Korea's missile-building and export programme, its past support for terrorism and its massive army.

Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have also suffered starvation and an estimated one in three people have depended on international food shipments.

Chief among the U-S's concerns is North Korea's missile development program and its export of missiles to Iran and Syria.

North Korea has also been included on the US list of states supporting international terrorism since 1988, after North Korean agents bombed a South Korean airliner killing 115 people.

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