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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (1) Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Obama visits family roots in Ireland | 23 May 2011 NATO bombs Tripoli, Clinton says time against Gaddafi | 3:35am EDT Netanyahu to outline peace vision in speech to Congress 23 May 2011 "Apprentice" ends with lowest-ever spring finale 23 May 2011 DNA evidence reported to tie Strauss-Kahn to accuser 23 May 2011 Discussed 325 Obama and Netanyahu face tense meeting on Mideast 124 As hours tick by, ”Judgment Day” looks a dud 103 Broadcaster silent as Judgment Day hours tick by Watched Arnold Schwarzenegger's mystery woman identified Thu, May 19 2011 Colombia's flood economy 12:40am EDT Plankers get fired for stunt Sun, May 22 2011 U.S. envoy makes groundbreaking trip to North Korea Tweet Share this By Jeremy Laurence SEOUL (Reuters) - Rights envoy Robert King headed to destitute North Korea on Tuesday, the first official U.S. visit to Pyongyang in 17 months as Washington considers whether to resume food aid and as momentum builds to resume... Email Print Related News China Foreign Ministry says no comment on Kim Jong-il visit 3:31am EDT Analysis & Opinion In to Africa: The road more travelled What if the IMF chose its chief on economic merit? Related Topics World » Politics » North Korea » A North Korean soldier looks south as he stands guard in front of its guard post on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, May 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Jo Yong-Hak By Jeremy Laurence SEOUL | Tue May 24, 2011 3:31am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Rights envoy Robert King headed to destitute North Korea on Tuesday, the first official U.S. visit to Pyongyang in 17 months as Washington considers whether to resume food aid and as momentum builds to resume nuclear disarmament talks. The envoy will lead a team of five people on the week-long trip to evaluate the isolated North's pleas for food, which have been questioned by South Korea and some high profile U.S. senators. The United States is under pressure to resume food aid after a U.N. report said earlier this year that more than 6 million North Koreans urgently need help. Washington has stressed that King's trip does not mean a resumption of aid is imminent. "However, since North Korea sees U.S. decisions on humanitarian aid through a political lens, the food aid assessment might be treated in Pyongyang as a political signal that the Obama administration might finally be open to a broader political dialogue with North Korea," wrote North Korea expert Scott Snyder on the Council of Foreign Relations website. King's visit, the first by a U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights since the job's inception in 2004, comes as North Korea leader Kim Jong-il tours ally China on a trip to "study" its economic model. Diplomats and analysts say the North, squeezed by international sanctions for nuclear and missile tests in 2009, will probably also ask for more food and economic aid from its main benefactor. In return, experts expert Beijing to press the North to join the South in bilateral talks as a prelude to regional denuclearization talks, stalled for over two years after Pyongyang walked out over a new round of U.N. sanctions. Beijing says the so-called six party talks between the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States are the best diplomatic forum to resolve all issues on the peninsula, not just denuclearization. Tensions spiked last year after two deadly attacks killed 50 South Koreans. SEOUL SCEPTICAL Last month, after a trip to the North, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter accused Seoul and Washington of human rights abuses for denying the North aid. Washington suspended food supplies to the North in 2008 over a monitoring dispute and has said it will only resume them with Seoul's agreement. Critics of aid say the North has siphoned off the food in the past to feed its million-strong army, and South Korea says the North's food stocks are at the same levels as last year. Officials in Seoul also suspect North Korea wants to hoard food ahead of a third nuclear test, which would likely provoke a further tightening of international sanctions. King is also expected to raise broader human rights issues with North Korean officials, as well as the case of an American citizen detained in North Korea since last November on charges of doing missionary work. (Editing by Jonathan Thatcher) World Politics North Korea Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) ladygoodman wrote: I hate to say this, but Carter is an idiot. The North Korean government is responsible for the starvation of its own people because it syphons all of its resources into its military and weapons and isolates itself from the rest of the world just by being hateful so the privileged few can remain the privileged few at the expense of the rest of the citizens through which the government eats its way in pursuit of power and prestige, even if that prestige is only seen through its own eyes. 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