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‘NK trip to South no surprise to Washington’
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/10/120_165864.html
“The weekend visit to the South by a group of three top North Korean officials might not have come as a surprise to the United States because officials from Seoul have suggested to Washington that they are trying to make progress with Pyongyang, an expert said Monday.
The three officials — Hwang Pyong-so, Choe Ryong-hae and Kim Yang-gon — made a one-day surprise trip to the South’s western city of Incheon on Saturday to attend the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, where North Korean athletes competed.
It was unprecedented for such high-level North Korean officials to travel together to the South...”