SEOUL - former President Jimmy Carter was in North Korea on Tuesday for talks to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula to get warring.
Remain the so-called six talks on the Denuclearization of North Korea in the balance, and Mr.. Carter said official dialogue with the North "appears at a standstill."
Mr. Carter and three former leaders from Europe arrived in Beijing on Sunday. Travel with Mr. Carter, the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari were; Gro Harlem Brundtland, a past Secretary of State; and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. The four are members of the elders, an independent group of world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela.
"It is clearly a great deal of distrust between North and South Korea," said Mr Ahtisaari. "But the use is too high to the standoff continue to permit."
The oldest group had hoped meetings with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, although Mr. Carter said Monday that such a meeting still had not established.
It was also unclear whether Mr.. Carter, an American man release by North Korea on unspecified charges since November in prison, would press North Korean officials.
On Thursday, following meetings in Pyongyang, is the oldest group in the South Korean capital Seoul travel.
Earlier this month, an American man said the North Korean Government already "his crime had allowed." Sources in the United States, which name it, said the man was a Korean American businessman in his sixties from Orange County, California young-Su Jun, the South Korean News Agency, Yonhap, citing.
Yonhap said Mr Jun had been taken into custody in connection with illegal religious activities in the North.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mark toner, confirmed that an American was kept from the North, but he and other officials United States declined to name the prisoner and offers no personal details, citing privacy rules. The United States urges North Korea to the Americans "for humanitarian reasons."
The State Department has said, Mr. Carter's trip was a private trip and he was not as a delegate for American Act.
But Mr.. Carter on liberation of jailed Americans in the past been successful. He made a private trip to Pyongyang in August last year after the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, of Boston, win, who was convicted of illegally in North Korea.
In April 2010 to eight years, Mr Gomes had been sentenced to forced labour and was fined $700,000. Mr Gomes said the Carter Center amnesty were been granted by the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
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