A North Korean soldier looks inside a Military Armistice Committee or AMC meeting room at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks with Asian officials Wednesday before meeting North Korea's top diplomat in what will be Washington's highest-level contact with the Stalinist state in four years. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Hyun-tai)

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