White House Daily Briefing, October 23, 2000
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
October 23, 2000
PRESS BRIEFING BY JAKE SIEWERT
The James S. Brady Briefing Room
12:10 P.M. EDT
Q: Jake, has the President received any update from Secretary Albright
on her trip to North Korea? Or what does the White House Hear?
SIEWERT: She had substantive and useful discussions with the Chairman
in Pyongyang, and we expect her to be back at the end of the week and
we'll get a full update from her at that point. But at this point,
we've simply heard that she had a good three-hour meeting with
Chairman Kim and we expect that we'll get a full report when she
returns.
Those discussions began earlier than we had expected. They were not
expected to meet until tomorrow. But she is expected to have more
meetings tomorrow and then we'll hear back from her. She's due back in
Washington on Thursday and I expect we'll get a report sometime after
she returns to Washington.
Q: How soon will you decide whether to travel there?
SIEWERT: We haven't set a time line for making that decision. We will
make a judgment on the merits, whether we think it's useful in
advancing the concerns we have about what's going on in North Korea,
whether it would further the sunshine policy that President Kim Dae
Jung initiated and we'll wait to hear back from her and make a
decision after we've had a chance to look at what the substance of the
discussions were over there.
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