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The US and North Korean diplomats met today in New York for the second time in less than a month. The State Department has confirmed that its special negotiator for North Korea Joseph Detrony and Jim Foster, director of the department’s office of Korean affairs met with North Korean diplomats in New York. The United States is trying to persuade North Korea to return to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program. Those talks have been stalled for a year, but there have been strong signals coming from Pyongyang in the last week that the North Koreans would like to return to the negotiating table. Those talks also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. An American scholar who recently met with North Korean leaders in Pyongyang said they are eager to resume the six-party negotiations, but they are continuing to expand their nuclear arsenal and now they want the negotiations to focus on mutual steps they and the US can take to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.