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A day after former President Bill Clinton’s flight into North Korea to win the freedom of two American journalists, the Obama administration moved Wednesday to send a stern message to the North Korean regime: nothing has changed.

Bill Clinton and Journalists in Emotional Return to U.S. (August 6, 2009)

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While President Obama celebrated the emotional reunion of the journalists,Laura Ling and Euna Lee, with their families, he said Mr. Clinton’s “humanitarian mission” did not ease the demands of the United States and his allies that North Korea alter its behavior if it wants to escape its isolation.

But even as the administration took pains through its statements to assure allies abroad and voters at home that it would not be lured naively into yet another round of fruitless talks with the North Korean regime, officials were busily calculating whether the psychology in Pyongyang had changed in a way that might create opportunities for resolving the long confrontation over its nuclear ambitions. They were also waiting to evaluate the impressions brought back by Mr. Clinton and the other Americans on the trip about North Korea’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-Il, and any diplomatic signals Mr. Kim might have been trying to convey.

Administration officials said the White House had no plans to change its strategy for negotiating with Pyongyang, which involves imposing strict sanctions on the regime and inviting it back to multi-party negotiations only if it agrees to give up its nuclear weapons program.

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