France will open a bureau in North Korea's cooperation, the newspaper Le Monde said on Tuesday. But it stressed that Paris did not launch diplomatic ties with the reclusive Stalinist state it.
A senior French diplomat now in Pyongyang, where he "will convey to North Korea" a representative of France that is to come, the newspaper said. Allegedly, representatives of France's Olivier Vaysset, a diplomat who has worked in Singapore.
"The opening of the office that does not mean that France would open diplomatic relations with the sort of totalitarian state that," he said, but added that the office will act as a "diplomatic intermediaries".
The proposed office will handle the cultural cooperation, according to the newspaper. French move came as relations between North Korea and South Korea to their lowest setback after Pyongyang accused Seoul of torpedoing a ship of war in March 2010, which killed 46 soldiers.
North Korea angrily denied the accusations, but continued to attack an island on the border last November, killing four South Koreans, including two civilians.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sent the former minister Jack Lang in 2009 to North Korea for talks, and Lang at the time of his return recommended that the cooperation established an office in Pyongyang.
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