By DPA,
Seoul : US President Barack Obama’s special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, travelled to the Stalinist state Tuesday to try to convince the country to return to international denuclearisation talks.
Bosworth also hopes to convince the regime in Pyongyang to honour a disarmament deal stuck in 2005 with the US, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea – the other participants in the six-party talks.
The US envoy, the first representative of the Obama administration to visit the Communist state, left for North Korea from a US Air Force base Tuesday afternoon, South Korean media said.
He is expected to meet Deputy Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju at the start of his three-day visit.
North Korea in April abandoned the six-party talks following criticism by the UN Security Council for a controversial rocket launch, but in September indicated it would be willing to revive the stalled talks.
However, the isolated regime made its participation contingent on progress in direct talks with the US.