US Envoy to North Korea Tuesday

ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, the US Special Representative for North Korean Policy, will travel to Pyongyang tomorrow for a two day visit aimed at wooing the reclusive, repressive regime back to negotiations over its nuclear program. Bosworth’s trip will be the first to North Korea by a US official during the Obama administration and the first by a senior American official in over a year. "We obviously hope that Ambassador Bosworth's visit is successful in persuading the North Koreans to return to the six-party talks and work toward the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and a new set of relationships with us and with or partners," Secretary Hillary Clinton told reporters today. Despite hints going back several months that North Korea was willing to return to talks about its nuclear program, officials today remained cautious that the visit will result in the resumption of negotiations. “Our goal is the resumption of the six-party talks. This is an important meeting, but I'm not going to say that this is a be-all and end-all meeting,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said today, referring to the multilateral talks aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear capability. A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Bosworth was not carrying with him any new incentives for North Korea to return to talks, saying the US does not want to reward them for returning to agreements that had already been reached. The official said the US had heard some indications that North Korea was willing to return to the Six Party Talks and wanted to find out in person if that was the case. Asked when they found out about this, the official said some details came during former President Bill Clinton’s trip to Pyongyang last summer, others during two senior Chinese visits to Pyongyang, and also from a North Korean delegation that attended the funeral of the former South Korean president earlier this year. Still, the official said the US has no expectations for the outcome of the visit, saying they won’t know for sure what North Korea is willing to do until Bosworth comes back. After departing North Korea on Thursday, Bosworth will travel to South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia, to brief those countries, the other members of the Six Party Talks, on the outcome of his visit.