The meetings mark a rare sign of movement on the North Korean denuclearisation front since Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un met in Singapore last year
A top North Korean nuclear envoy held talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and was on his way to meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday during a visit aimed at clearing the way for a second US-North Korea summit.
The diplomatic encounter with Kim Yong-chol, Pyongyang’s lead negotiator with the United States, marked a rare sign of potential movement in a denuclearisation effort that has stalled since a landmark meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore last June.
Kim Yong-chol and Pompeo posed together for photographs at a Washington hotel before heading into the talks.
The State Department said after the 45-minute meeting that Pompeo had a “good discussion” with Kim Yong-chol “on efforts to make progress on commitments President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un made at their summit in Singapore.
