Hill unsure about outcome of his N. Korea trip By Lee Chi-dong

INCHEON, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- Chief U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill was cautious Tuesday about predicting the results of his trip to North Korea this week.

"We will see what happens when we go up to DPRK (North Korea) tomorrow," Hill
told reporters upon arriving at an international airport just west of Seoul en
route to Pyongyang.
He said he will focus his "open-ended" trip there on trying to reach a deal on
ways of verifying the North's recent nuclear declaration and completing the
second of the three-tier denuclearization process.
"We need to make sure that we are going to be able to verify their declaration.
So let's see if we can come up with the measures or they allow us to verify the
declaration," he said. "And what we also want to do is to move on and complete
our obligations in the phase two which includes, of course, taking them off the
terrorism list."
In the second stage, North Korea is required to disable its main nuclear
facilities in Yongbyon in return for economic assistance and political
incentives.
But the North has reversed the disabling work in protest of Washington's delay in
removing Pyongyang from the terrorism list.
Asked about how long he is going to stay in North Korea, he said, "Let's first
see whether we are going to make some progress."
lcd@yna.co.kr
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