U.S. officials secretly visited North Korea last year

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

... This is one thing that I think is not worth it for me to say

Los Angeles (Reuters)-the United States officials visited North Korea twice secretly last year, in an attempt to improve relations after North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un to assume the Office, said the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Saturday.

By citing the statement of former officials is not mentioned by name, knowing that the visit, the newspaper said the visit in April and August that aims to encourage new leaders in Pyongyang ran a moderate foreign policy.

The visit was led by Joseph DeTrani April, which at that time was the Director of national intelligence agency "National Counterproliferation Center."

It is not clear who is leading the August visit, the newspaper said.

The Times quoted officials as saying that Sydney Seiler, an analyst of the CIA veterans, who are fluent in Korea and led Korea Policy Board at the National Security Council, took part in two of the visit.

DeTrani withdrew from the Government last year and is now leading the Intelligence and national security Alliance, an industry group, said the newspaper.

"There are certain things I don't want to say, and this is one thing that I think is not worth it for me to disclose," the report said quoting a statement DeTrani in one telephone interview.

DeTrani said he and other u.s. experts had seen signs that Kim Jong-Un may be less assertive in comparison with his father, including placing a moderate figures in important government positions.

Without confirm excursions in 2012, she added take it is the need for US to conduct negotiations with officials from North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il, the paper said, as quoted by AFP.

U.s. officials have visited North Korea in the past. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made an official visit to the country in 2000.

U.S. officials visited North Korea last year 2009 was Stephen Bosworth, who endeavored to re-start the stalled negotiations with six countries of North Korea nuclear program.

(H-RN/C003)

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Mexico jailbreak officials held

The break-outs happened at three jails across the state almost simultaneously

  Twelve inmates escaped from Duport Ostion jail in Coatzacoalcos Officials in charge of the Mexican prisons from which 32 inmates escaped have been detained, prosecutors say.

The prisoners staged an almost simultaneous break-out from three jails in western Veracruz state on Monday.
The prison directors and their deputies had been detained on suspicion of helping the inmates to escape, said Veracruz Prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar.
Prison breaks are not uncommon in Mexico, last year more than 140 people escaped from a prison in Nuevo Laredo.
Mr Escobar said the director and the security chief of La Toma jail in Amatlan de los Reyes, as well as the director and deputy director of Cosamaloapan jail, were already in custody.
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The prosecutor said he had also ordered the detention of the director and deputy director of Duport Ostion jail in Coatzacoalcos.
The break-outs happened in the early hours of Monday morning.
Sixteen inmates escaped from Duport Ostion, 14 from La Toma and two from the Cosamaloapan prison.
Fourteen of the fugitives were recaptured shortly afterwards.
Guards at the jails said they had been overpowered and forced to open the doors.
Veracruz state official Gerardo Buganza Salmeron cast doubt on reports the prisoners had been armed.
"The presence of an armed group normally leads to blood being shed, (it leads) to lamentable and bloody acts, and in the cases of these three prisons there was none of that," he said.
Mr Buganza Salmeron also dismissed speculation that the break-outs had been organised by criminal gangs outside the prisons.
He said that if that had been the case the security forces would not have been able to recapture so many of the fugitives as quickly as they did.
Security at Mexican prisons is notoriously weak, with guards often intimidated or bribed by drug gangs operating inside and outside the jails.
The largest jailbreak so far was last December when more than 140 prisoners escaped from a penitentiary in Nuevo Laredo, in northern Tamaulipas state.
Prison officials who refuse to be bribed by the country's powerful drug gangs sometimes end up dead.
In May, the deputy governor of a prison in the northern state of Durango was murdered.
His dismembered body was found in a plastic box inside a car abandoned near the prison where he worked.

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Pennsylvania officials consider evacuation order of lifting as inflated by the river flood recedes

Published September 10, 2011| NewsCore

Wilkes-Barre, PA-Pennsylvania Saturday emergency management officials were considering lifted an evacuation order affecting approximately 100,000 people after days of rain and floods in the area submerged roads and left at least six dead, the Leader of the Wilkes-Barre times reported.

Affected communities flooding of New York, Virginia, with much of the damage along the Susquehanna River, swollen first by tropical storm Irene and then shortly after by tropical storm Lee. More than 12 inches of rain were dumped in some parts of New York and Pennsylvania since Monday.

Officials in alfalfa County, Pennsylvania, said Saturday that the Susquehanna water levels were back and they were considering allowing some residents to return to their homes.

"We are beginning to move in the opposite direction at this time," the paper quoted Executive Director of alfalfa County Flood Protection Authority Jim Brozena saying. "We start the preparation of things so that we can return people."

From 6: 30 pm et Saturday, the Susquehanna River had fallen to a level of 33.02 feet. Brozena, has declared a level below 30 feet, which could be reached Saturday afternoon - render safe for some of the 100,000 people displaced to return to their homes.

The River crested Friday at a record-setting 42,66 feet, higher than the National Weather Service approximately four feet estimated initially, Mayor of Wilkes - Barre Tom Leighton said.

Leighton has urged residents to take account of the orders of evacuation Friday after President Barack Obama said the State of emergency for New York and Pennsylvania during the night.

Three dead in Pennsylvania in incidents related to flooding, including a boy of eight years in the County of Lancaster, who was swept down a storm drain, said police in East Cocalico, according to the Intelligencer Journal.

Two people died in Virginia after having been swept away by flood waters, the Washington Post reported. A 12 year old boy was swept by flooding from a Creek, in Fairfax County and a man 67 year-old died in a car when it has been overwhelmed by rushing water from the Potomac River.

In Maryland, a 49-year-old man died after drowning near his home in Pasadena, near Chesapeake Bay, the Post reported.

In addition, the Delaware River to Trenton, New Jersey, overflowed its banks Thursday, flooding of several neighbourhoods of city and urging the closure of schools, The Star-Ledger reported.

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