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Representatives of the United States and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday continued their discussions on the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula and on measures to normalize their bilateral relations.

The Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and Deputy Minister North Korean Foreign Affairs Kim Kye-gwan, had conducted a working lunch and a private meeting Monday night.

“We started to discuss the process of normalization between North Korea and the United States,” Mr. Hill said Tuesday morning.

He said the process included a number of factors, including the fact that the U.S. regards the DPRK as a state that supports terrorism.

Many are those who describe these talks as historic, but the spokesman State Department Sean McCormack said that one should not expect immediate results.

“I think it will take time to complete the process,” said Mr. McCormack told reporters.

These discussions are long overdue response to the six-party talks (China, DPRK, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Russia), which ended February 13, 2007 in Beijing with a statement joint on the first step toward the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohammed ElBaradei, is scheduled to visit Pyongyang March 13 to discuss the control of the dismantling of nuclear facilities in the DPRK.

在美朝会谈继续

对美国和对朝鲜人民民主共和国（朝鲜）周二继续进行讨论的代表就关于朝鲜半岛核危机的措施和双边关系正常化。

助理国务卿希尔和朝鲜副部长外务省副相金桂冠，进行了工作午餐和非公开会议上周一晚上。

“我们开始讨论朝鲜和美国关系正常化的进程，”希尔说，星期二上午。

他说，这个过程包括了许多因素，包括一个事实，即美国视为支持恐怖主义国家朝鲜。

许多是那些谁描述这些历史性的会谈，但美国国务院发言人麦科马克说，不要期望立竿见影的效果。

说：“我认为这将需要时间来完成这一过程，先生说：”麦科马克对记者说。

这些讨论早就响应六方会谈（中国，朝鲜，美国，韩国，日本，俄罗斯），从而结束在北京2月13日，2007年的声明联合在对朝鲜半岛的无核化的第一步。

的国际原子能机构（原子能机构），穆罕默德巴拉迪总干事定于3月13日访问平壤，讨论了控制核设施的拆除朝鲜。07.03.07