 At various times during the Bush administration Dong Moon Joo, the president of "The Washington Times", undertook unofficial diplomatic missions to North Korea in an effort to improve relations.On February 13, 2007, agreement in the Six-Party Talks – among the United States, the two Koreas, Japan, China, and Russia – called for other actions besides a path toward a denuclearized Korean peninsula.It also outlined steps toward the normalization of political relations with Pyongyang, a replacement of the Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace treaty, and the building of a regional peace structure for Northeast Asia.