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U.S. Department of State

Daily Press Briefing

INDEX
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1999
Briefer: JAMES P. RUBIN

NORTH KOREA
2-3	Perry Report

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
DPB #121
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1999, 12:43 P.M.
(ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)

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QUESTION: The Perry report has apparently gone to Congress. Can you tell us anything about that?

MR. RUBIN: Well, Dr. Perry is briefing members of Congress. I understand he briefed the majority leader of the Senate today. Dr. Perry has been working on this report for some time, as you know, and it is a report that addresses the myriad issues associated with the subject of North Korea. Let me say that I am hopeful that Dr. Perry will be in a position to speak more publicly about his findings and recommendations in the coming day or so.

QUESTION: Does that mean some kind of --

MR. RUBIN: Some sort of public way of those of you who might be interested to obtain an opportunity --

QUESTION: Show up at two different places at a certain time and --

MR. RUBIN: That kind of thing. Now, we'll have to see how that develops, but I would expect that to happen in the next day or so. It's normal procedure for a situation like this, given the nature of the report and the nature of the information involved, for that to begin with discussions with Congress prior to the discussions with the press.

QUESTION: Which means that we'll probably read about it in tomorrow's New York Times.

MR. RUBIN: Well, some of you may read certain newspapers and some of you may not.

QUESTION: Part of is in written form?

MR. RUBIN: There is a written report, yes.

QUESTION: And would we be able to obtain --

MR. RUBIN: Unlikely that there is - I'm not aware there is an unclassified summary of the report. I'm not aware of that. That doesn't mean that some form of that can't be created by the fact of such a briefing, but I don't believe that there is a classified and unclassified version - and it's just a question of when you get your hands on the unclassified version. I don't believe that's the way it has been produced.

QUESTION: Still on North Korea: Can you comment at all on the release by - some contents of the report by the South Korean Foreign Ministry apparently has briefed some of its reporters on the main contents of Dr. Perry's report?

MR. RUBIN: Well, you have to be more specific than that. Certainly, Dr. Perry ought to be the person briefing Dr. Perry's report, as a matter of principle. But let me also say that one of the key premises of our policy -- that Dr. Perry, I believe, shares -- is the importance of close consultation and coordination with South Korea and Japan.

Is that the one-two punch on that one? Did I get that right? Boy, does everybody need a pep pill today?

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