US senators planning trip to NKorea-Murkowski

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) One of President George W Bush's Republican allies today urged the administration to allow the chief US negotiator to pay a trust-building visit to North Korea.

Sen Lisa Murkowski, speaking to the Asia Society, also said she and a small group of other senators, concerned about the stalemate in North Korean nuclear talks, were trying to arrange a trip to Pyongyang.

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