Article: The US and North Korea near diplomatic thaw.(WORLD)

Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON -- The deal struck by the top US and North Korean negotiators in Geneva for North Korea to live up to its promise to give up its nuclear weapons program apparently comes with crucial US concessions.

The US agreed in the talks to take North Korea off the State Department's list of "terrorist" countries, according to a spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry, and also to provide political and economic "compensation" in the form of removal of sanctions.

The State Department refrained from immediate comment on the North Korean report, carried by Pyongyang's Korean ...

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