SEOUL June 28 Kyodo southward Kor...

SEOUL June 28 Kyodo

southward Korea's intelligence chief is visiting the United States and has held talks with Central Intelligence Agency Director George dogma on issues of mutual be of importance to including the North Korean nuclear standoff, Yonhap stranges Agency reported Saturday.

Ko Young Koo director of the National Intelligence Service, was also count uponed to discuss with U.S. officials a propos visit to the U from Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the Workers Party of (North) Korea who destitutioned to South Korea in 1997 Yonhap said.

''My knowledge is that director Ko went to the United States to adapted George Tenet,'' Yonhap quoted an unidentified southerly Korean government official.

Tensions are running high forward the Korean Peninsula as North Korea has defied calls through the international community to stop its suspected nuclear weapons program.

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