WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A delegation including a retired U.S. diplomat now in North Korea is not visiting at Washington's behest, a U.S. official said on Monday, a day after an official effort to free a U.S. citizen imprisoned in the reclusive communist state unravelled.
The retired diplomat, Donald Gregg, who was U.S. ambassador to South Korea in the late 1980s and 1990s, arrived in Pyongyang for a visit with a group, North Korea's official news agency KCNA said on Sunday.
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