The U.S. State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has no plans to meet with North Korean officials during her planned visit to East Asia.

Clinton is expected to start her tour of South Korea, China and Japan as early as mid-February.

On food aid plans to North Korea, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said that U.S. shipments of food to the North were sent last month as planned and that a comprehensive review of future food provisions to the communist state is currently under way.