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US Urges NK to Free All Detainees

Written: 2009-08-11 08:15:06Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

US Urges NK to Free All Detainees

The United States is urging North Korea to free all the detainees being held in the communist state.

In a daily press briefing Monday, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the U.S. wants to see the release of all those held in North Korea.

Wood said the North will not have good relations with the U.S. or the world if it continues behavior along the lines it’s exhibited in the past. He urged Pyongyang to live up to the 2005 joint statement it signed committing to a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. He added that the ball is now in North Korea’s court.

The spokesman also said there’s been no follow-up meeting, whether through the New York channel or by any other means, with the North since former President Bill Clinton’s trip to the communist state last week.

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