Pyongyang
Top officials of the United States and North Korea say they’ll appoint working groups to handle a range of matters, including the verification of work to shut down Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Pyongyang to discuss the details of the North’s denuclearization with high-ranking members of the ruling Workers’ Party. He met with Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol on Friday and again on Saturday.
The US State Department says heading the US side will be Sung Kim, formerly a special envoy on North Korean affairs, and now the ambassador to the Philippines.
The department says they also discussed the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers who fought in the Korean War, which was agreed at the US-North Korea summit in Singapore in June.
In talks on Saturday, Pompeo said that it is essential for the North to achieve complete denuclearization.
At the June summit, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed that the North would give up its nuclear program. But the agreement contained few specifics.
On Saturday morning, the Korean Central News Agency reported on the visit by Pompeo, but did not say whether he would meet leader Kim Jong Un.-
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