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Diplomat: US Must 'Engage' to Seek Change From N. Korea

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   STATE DEPARTMENT - The United States will continue to pursue diplomatic
   negotiations with North Korea while pressing Pyongyang to improve its
   human rights practice, a State Department official said this week.
   Robert Destro, U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human
   rights and labor affairs, told VOA in an interview Thursday that
   Washingtonhas to"engage" with "a human rights violator like North
   Korea" to "get them to change their behavior."

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