New US envoy for North Korea to huddle with South Koreans, Japanese

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SEOUL: The United States' new top envoy for North Korea was scheduled to meet counterparts from South Korea and Japan during a visit to Seoul on ...

U.S. President Biden and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in hold a joint news conference, in WashingtonSEOUL: The United States' new top envoy for North Korea was scheduled to meet counterparts from South Korea and Japan during a visit to Seoul on Monday , amid an impasse in denuclearisation talks with Pyongyang.

US special representative for North Korea Sung Kim is in South Korea for a five-day visit, with no word of any planned efforts to contact the North.Kim, who doubles as ambassador to Indonesia, had back-to-back meetings scheduled with South Korea's top nuclear envoy, Noh Kyu-duk, as well as a trilateral session involving his Japanese counterpart, Takehiro Funakoshi.

The US said on Sunday it saw Kim's comments as an"interesting signal," but added that Washington was still waiting for direct communication from Pyongyang to start any talks relating to denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

 

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