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QUESTION: On North Korea, please. North Korea?
MS. PSAKI: Let’s just do a couple more here, because it’s been a marathon adventure here.
Go ahead.
QUESTION: Can you confirm a media report that human rights envoy King will visit Pyongyang
next Monday?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t have a – talked about this a little bit yesterday, and our – my
information has not changed, or what I can provide to all of you has not changed, which
is that we have long offered to send Ambassador King to North Korea. That hasn’t changed.
Our focus here is on securing the release of Kenneth Bae. Because of that, we’re not
going to outline every element of communication, every effort that’s underway, because that’s
what our focus is on.
QUESTION: Does North Korea invite that – King, Ambassador King?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t have anything new to tell you about it.
QUESTION: So you are saying no decision has been made yet?
MS. PSAKI: I just don’t have any new information to provide to you.
QUESTION: I have one more about --
QUESTION: You said, “My information has not changed,” and you said, “The information
that I have to provide you has not changed.” So you have information about this that you
can’t provide us?
MS. PSAKI: I was just conveying that at any point in this process, Arshad, we’re not
going to provide every specific effort that’s underway.