Ri Gun, director general of the North American affairs bureau of North. Korea's Foreign Ministry, arrives at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York October 30, 2009. Gun, North Korea's second-ranking nuclear negotiator, met in New York and in California with Sung Kim, the U.S. special envoy to disarmament talks. The rare contacts were seen as a possible step toward a formal U.S.-North Korea meeting that would in turn lead to a resumption of long-stalled six-country nuclear talks. Reuters Pictures 3 weeks ago

Ri Gun, director general of the North American affairs bureau of North. Korea's Foreign Ministry, arrives at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York October 30, 2009. Gun, North Korea's second-ranking nuclear negotiator, met in New York and in California with Sung Kim, the U.S. special envoy to disarmament talks. The rare contacts were seen as a possible step toward a formal U.S.-North Korea meeting that would in turn lead to a resumption of long-stalled six-country nuclear talks.

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  1. China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (C) and his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong-chun (L) inspect North Korean soldiers upon his arrival in Pyongyang November 22, 2009, in this picture released on November 23, 2009 by North Korea's official news agency KCNA.
  2. POHANG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 04: U.S. Marine soldiers partcipate the U.S. and South Korean Marines Joint Landing Exercise at Pohang seashore on November 4, 2009 in Pohang, South Korea. South Korean marines conducted a joint landing operation with U.S. marines to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea, which the South remains technically at war with since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
  3. YEOJU-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 30: South Korean soldiers participate in a river crossing operation in preparation for a possible North Korean attack on October 30, 2009 in Yeoju, South Korea. The Korean peninsula is the world's last Cold War frontier as stalinist North Korea and pro-western South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: Yong Mi Kang of North Korea competes in the balance beam event during the second day of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at O2 Arena on October 14, 2009 in London, England.
  5. BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 10: China's Preisdent Hu Jintao (C) meets South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (R) and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse October 10, 2009 in Beijing, China. The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea called for the quick resumption of talks on ending North Korea's nuclear drive, with Beijing saying the door was open to make real progress.
  6. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 09: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) walks with South Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yu In-chon (L) on October 9, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Hatoyama is in South Korea ahead of visiting China for talks on upholding international sanctions against North Korea.
  7. MOUNT KUMGANG, NORTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 30: (SOUTH Families from North and South Korea, who were separated by the Korean War, are reunited with long lost relatives at the Mount Kumgang resort on September 30, 2009 in Mount Kumgang, North Korea. The first reunion in almost 2 years, North Korea agreed last month for two hundred people to be reunited from September 26 - October 1 as part of a string of reconciliatory moves.
  8. PANMUNJOM, SOUTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 30: North Korean soldiers cross the border line to check a coffin containing the body of a North Korean soldier during a repatriation ceremony at the border village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea on September 30, South Korea. U.N. officials deliver the body of a North Korean soldier to his homeland nearly two months after his body was found floating in the South Korean waters.
  9. MOUNT KUMGANG, NORTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 27: (SOUTH South Korean Lee Jung-Ho (R) meets with his North Korean elder brother Lee Kwae-Seok (L) who joined the South Korean military and was taken prisoner by North Korea during the Korean War, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on September 27, 2009 in Mount Kumgang, North Korea. The first reunion in almost 2 years, North Korea agreed last month for two hundred people to be reunited from September 26 - October 1 as part of a string of reconciliatory moves.
  10. INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - SEPTEMBER 04: U.S. Envoy For North Korea Stephen Bosworth arrives at Incheon International Airport on September 4, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special envoy arrived in Seoul to discuss to discuss North Korea's nuclear programme.
  11. MOUNTAIN KUMGANG, NORTH KOREA - AUGUST 27: (SOUTH Kim Young-Chol (L) chief delegate and secretary general of the South Korean Red Cross office and Choi Sung-Ik (R), vice president of central committee at the North Korean Red Cross leave the meeting room to discuss the reunion of families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War at a Mountain Kumkang hotel on August 27, 2009 in Mount Kumgang, North Korea. After being suspended for nearly two years, North and South Korea have reopened negotiations for allowing family members separated by the border to meet again.

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