WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The United States and North Korea will hold working group talks in New York on March 5-6 on the normalization of relations, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday but played down expectations of any breakthrough.

"This is a first meeting of this working group," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "Don't look at it as a meeting that is going to produce immediate results. Nobody is going to come out the front door and wave a piece of paper with some agreement on it."

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