5 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago Rice meets N. Korea's top diplomat over nuclear program

SINGAPORE (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting
with North Korea's top diplomat in Singapore, ending a four-year
hiatus in cabinet-level contacts between the Bush administration
and the Stalinist state over its nuclear program.

Rice says she and the foreign ministers of four other nations at
Wednesday's gathering will press North Korea to prove it is telling
the truth about its past atomic activities as part of an
international effort to get it to abandon nuclear weapons.

Diplomats say they expect the North's foreign minister to
present his country's position on a proposal to verify it has
disabled its nuclear facilities.

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