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Hmmmm. I wonder if we’ll ever find out just what this was all about:

Abruptly canceling his scheduled attendance at a South Korean prosecutors’ forum, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill is scheduled to return to the United States today. Mr. Hill was to give a lecture Thursday at the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office about new U.S. law on North Korean human rights. The U.S. Embassy canceled the meeting yesterday, announcing Mr. Hill has to return to the United States for consultations, with no elaboration.

You’d think that if all was well, they’d have had a reassuring soundbite for the press.

UPDATE: This isn’t quite that, but it’s something:

I want to have the opportunity to brief [Secretary Rice] directly on some of the bilateral issues we’re interested in. Of course, we’re not just interested in bilateral issues, we’re interested in some regional issues, mainly the North Korean questions.