Summary

Further excerpts from the State Department briefing. Topics include: the North Korea missile test and the American being held in North Korea.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 261920
Story Slug STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING (1996)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 11/8/1996
Archive Time 12:49
TRT 1:27
Description Further excerpts from the State Department briefing. Topics include: the North Korea missile test and the American being held in North Korea.
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) Unknown Speaker 00:00 their plans for missile test. We it now appears that the North Koreans have decided not to conduct a missile test. Now we you can never be sure about the North Koreans. But as you know, the United States has publicly urged and privately urge North Korea not to conduct missile tests, because we think it would be destabilizing in North Asia. And we don't think it would serve the cause of peace on the Korean peninsula. And we hope that these missile tests are never undertaken, it now appears that they will not undertake them. Unknown Speaker 00:29 Can you say what it is? And you it's always hard Unknown Speaker 00:33 to say with the North Koreans now in the case of Mr. Hunziker, who is the young American being held unjustly by the North Koreans, we have seen some encouraging North Korean foreign ministry statements about him about the fact that his case may be deemed by them to be humanitarian. As you know, we think he should be released immediately. Now, Mr. LabQuest, who's the Swedish diplomat acting, Unknown Speaker 00:55 will the role or the mission of US troops change? You know, someone who's a little cynical, might argue that when the troops went in, nobody with a promise how much it's costing for this delay? This ship was supposed to be unloaded a couple of weeks ago, Unknown Speaker 01:10 I think and I don't have Unknown Speaker 01:12 a certain percentage off the top for its own armed forces is what sort of Palestinian representation do you expect? Will it be on the same level as Israel and some of the some of the Arab
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