WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The choice of Vietnam as the venue for a second US-North Korea summit this month shows the possibility of moving beyond conflict and division towards a thriving partnership, the US State Department said on Thursday (Feb 7)..
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The choice of Vietnam as the venue for a second US-North Korea summit this month shows the possibility of moving beyond conflict and division towards a thriving partnership, the US State Department said on Thursday (Feb 7).
State Department spokesman Robert Palladino told a news briefing that US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun was in Pyongyang to prepare the Feb 27-28 summit and seeking progress on commitments made at the first meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June.
These included complete denuclearisation, transformation of US-North Korea relations and building a lasting peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula, he said.
Palladino reiterated that sanctions relief that North Korea has been seeking would follow its denuclearisation.
He said US-Vietnamese history “reflects the possibility for peace and prosperity”.
“We moved past conflict and division towards the thriving partnership we enjoy today,” Palladino said.
He gave no other details on Biegun’s talks in Pyongyang and declined to say how long he would stay there.
