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192349
Fri, 07/01/2011 - 18:26
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N. Korea says pacts with AP will help improve relations with U.S.
SEOUL (Yonhap) - North Korea's state news agency said Friday its agreements with The Associated Press, under which the U.S. new agency will be allowed to open a bureau in Pyongyang, will help improve relations between the two countries.
Heads of the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and AP signed a serious of pacts in New York earlier this week, allowing the U.S. news organization to expand its on-site coverage in the communist nation.
The agreements "will contribute to deepening the relations between the two news agencies, promoting mutual understanding of the peoples of the DPRK (North Korea) and the U.S. and improving the bilateral relations," KCNA said in a brief dispatch.
The KCNA report said its president, Kim Pyong-ho, returned home after signing the agreement in New York.
Under the deal, AP can base text and photo journalists in the North Korean capital along with its video news crew from APTN, which began operations there in 2006.
Both AP and KCNA gave no detailed schedule for the launch of the new bureau.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., which fought against it during the Korean War. The three-year Korean conflict ended in 1953 in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the two Koreas still technically at war.
Heads of the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and AP signed a serious of pacts in New York earlier this week, allowing the U.S. news organization to expand its on-site coverage in the communist nation.
The agreements "will contribute to deepening the relations between the two news agencies, promoting mutual understanding of the peoples of the DPRK (North Korea) and the U.S. and improving the bilateral relations," KCNA said in a brief dispatch.
The KCNA report said its president, Kim Pyong-ho, returned home after signing the agreement in New York.
Under the deal, AP can base text and photo journalists in the North Korean capital along with its video news crew from APTN, which began operations there in 2006.
Both AP and KCNA gave no detailed schedule for the launch of the new bureau.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., which fought against it during the Korean War. The three-year Korean conflict ended in 1953 in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the two Koreas still technically at war.
