Ri Gun, director general of the North American affairs bureau of North Korea's Foreign Ministry, arrives at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York October 30, 2009. Gun, North Korea's second-ranking nuclear negotiator, met in New York and in California with Sung Kim, the U.S. special envoy to disarmament talks. The rare contacts were seen as a possible step toward a formal U.S.-North Korea meeting that would in turn lead to a resumption of long-stalled six-country nuclear talks.
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