U.S. Relations With the People's Republic of China (2008)

U.S. Department of State

Daily Press Briefing

Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
June 6, 2008

DPB # 101
1:55 p.m. EDT

MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon, everybody. Let me just start off with a little -- one housekeeping note. Somebody was asking this morning about Sung Kim's travel. He's going to be leaving Washington on Sunday, the 8th. He's going to go to Seoul and he'll have some consultations there with a South Korean delegation, the six-party talks, and his Chinese counterpart, who will be in Seoul for the economic and energy working group meeting, which is going to take place in Seoul and Panmunjom on June 10th through 11th. But that is not Sung Kim's reason for going. He is then going to go on to Pyongyang on the 10th to talk to the North Korean six-party representatives about issues related to disablement. He's going to go back -- be back in Seoul on June 11th and is planning to be back here in Washington on June 12th.

With that, we can get right to your questions.

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(The briefing was concluded at 2:28 p.m.)