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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2014 file photo, North Korea's Kang Sok Ju, right, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and secretary of the WPK, shakes hands with German Ambassador to North Korea Thomas Schaefer as he leaves Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea to visit Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Mongolia. Kang, a top North Korean diplomat who negotiated a short-lived 1994 deal with the United States to freeze its nuclear programs in exchange for international aid, has died of cancer, the country's state media said Saturday, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)
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