An unnamed senior US official said that US President Bill Clinton brought up the subject of DPRK sanctions during talks with Kim. According to the official, Clinton promised to support Kim's effort to engage the DPRK, but expressed reservations about unilateral gestures. We have become like previous South Korean administrations, where they didn't want to do anything with the North. Now the new South Korean government wants to change . . . It is understood that the primary focus of those consultations will be on U.S. sanctions.
Further details concerning the working group are yet to be decided.
But we don't know to what degree, how it will be done and all other details. That will have to be discussed. The ROK unification ministry said Friday that both the ROK and DPRK governments have approved Chung's visit. The ministry said that Chung and the cattle would leave for the DPRK on Tuesday morning through Panmunjom and would return to the ROK on June 23 the same way. He said that Chung would visit his hometown and discuss economic cooperation, including a tourism project of Kumkang Mountain.