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米国務副長官が北朝鮮訪問か、英ＦＴ紙報道
21日付の英紙フィナンシャル・タイムズ（アジア版）は、米国のネグロポンテ国務副長官が北朝鮮訪問を検討している、と報じた。副長官は来週にも中国、韓国、日本などを訪問する予定。このアジア歴訪の日程に平壌を加えるかどうか、考えているという。ただ、同紙は訪朝を否定したり、現段階ではあり得ないとしたりする、関係者の見方も伝えている。
ネグロポンテ氏は閣僚ポストの国家情報長官などを歴任した人物。実現すれば2000年のオルブライト国務長官（当時）以来となる、米政府の有力者による訪朝となる。(12:29)
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fb8aa396-c150-11db-bf18-000b5df10621.html
Negroponte to shore up N Korea deal
By Guy Dinmore in Washington
Published: February 21 2007 02:00 | Last updated: February 21 2007 02:00
John Negroponte's first mission as US deputy secretary of state is expected to take him to Asia next week to shore up last week's breakthrough deal with North Korea, under which Pyongyang is to close its nuclear bomb-making facilities in return for aid and peace talks.
Mr Negroponte, the former national director of intelligence who took up his new post only last week, would visit China, South Korea and Japan, officials said. One senior official said Mr Negroponte planned to add Pyongyang to his itinerary, though others either denied this or said such a trip was unlikely at this stage. The US State Department said only: "We have nothing to announce at this time."
Mr Negroponte would be the most senior US official to visit Pyongyang since the visit in October 2000 by Madeleine Albright, then secretary of state.
Last month, US president George W. Bush's administration abandoned opposition to bilateral talks with North Korea by allowing Christopher Hill, its chief negotiator, to engage his North Korean counterpart in talks in Berlin.
That led to the breakthrough at Chinese-brokered negotiations in Beijing on February 13, after almost 18 months of impasse.
The Bush administration and in particular Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, have been fiercely criticised by Washington hawks over last week's deal. Officials admitted that a high-level visit to Pyongyang would be highly controversial internally.
David Frum, analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote that the deal with North Korea contained no more safeguards against cheating than the failed agreement reached between Pyonyang and the US in 1994.
Under that deal, North Korea agreed to freeze its Yongbyon nuclear facility, but the deal fell apart in 2002 when the Bush administration accused the communist regime of secretly enriching uranium.
Pyongyang then expelled UN inspectors and restarted operations at Yongbyon, a process that culminated in its first nuclear test last October.
Mr Frum warned that the current deal, which involves the US removing North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terror, would harm close relations with Japan, which has an unresolved issue over its citizens kidnapped by North Korea.
Meanwhile, Dick Cheney, US vice-president, arrived in Japan yesterday on an Asian trip which will take him on to Australia. John Howard, the Australian prime minister, said Mr Bush had called him for a long discussion on North Korea. "The president is realistically optimistic," Mr Howard said of the prospects for the deal with North Korea.
Robert Einhorn, a proliferation expert who was part of the US delegation to Pyong-yang in 2000, said a high-level visit to North Korea was important to sustain momentum. "This is a critical phase of the process," he said. However, he considered that Mr Hill would be more likely than Mr Negroponte to become the first senior US official to visit Pyongyang.
Mr Einhorn described some of the first actions required of North Korea during the first 60 days of the agreement as "textbook" measures, including allowing the return of UN inspectors and installing fresh seals on equipment at the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
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