Seoul: A group of US experts on Korean affairs plans to visit North Korea later this month to meet with officials involved in the North's nuclear program.
Jack Pritchard, president of the Korea Economic Institute, and Scott Snyder, director of the Centre for US-Korea Policy at the Asia Foundation, are expected to visit North Korea from November 21-24, a senior diplomatic source said today.
Another diplomatic source said he was aware that Pritchard, Snyder, and a fellow researcher from the KEI are planning to visit North Korea in a private capacity.
"The purpose of the visit is to meet with key North Korean officials involved in the country's nuclear program," the source told Yonhap News Agency.
North Korea and the United States have resumed contacts recently as part of efforts to reopen the stalled six-party talks on the North's denuclearisation.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009, 12:34