Bill Clinton, the former US president, has met Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean leader, in Pyongyang, North Korean state media have reported.
Source: Al Jazeera
- The Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday that Clinton "courteously" conveyed a verbal message from Barack Obama, the US president.
- The report was denied by the White House as untrue.
- "That's not true," Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, told reporters on Tuesday.
- Clinton was travelling with US government officials to seek the release of two jailed US journalists, South Korea's Yonhap news agency cited a source as saying.
- The former US president, who flew to the capital on an unmarked jet on Tuesday, is the most senior US official to arrive in the North Korean capital in nearly a decade.
- He was greeted at the airport by North Korean officials, including Kim Kye Gwan, who has been the North's chief negotiator in nuclear negotiations.
- Kim hosted a dinner for Clinton at the state guest house and received the message from Obama, according to Radio Pyongyang and the Korean Central Broadcasting Station.
- The White House said Clinton was travelling on a "solely private mission" and refused to comment so as not to "jeopardise the success" of his trip.
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