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2008/03/06 02:54 KST
Language toned down on N.K. human rights report

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. State Department is choosing its words carefully in preparing its annual report assessing human rights conditions in other countries, specifically North Korea, the focus of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Glyn Davies, principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and the Pacific, e-mailed Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights and labor, on Friday asking for changes in the language on North Korea, according to the report.