Top N.Korean In Washington To Prepare New Trump Summit
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published January 18, 2019 | 11:36 AM
Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2019 ) :A top North Korean general is in Washington Friday for a rare visit, during which he is expected to meet President Donald Trump as the two countries seek to finalize a new summit aimed at denuclearization and easing decades of hostility.
Kim Yong Chol, a right-hand man to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, arrived Thursday evening in the US capital, the latest peace-making mission just a year after once-soaring tensions began to abate.
The North Korean negotiator abruptly canceled his last planned talks in the United States -- a meeting set two months ago in New York with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- and this time the administration has treaded cautiously, not announcing his visit in advance.
But an American source, who could not be identified as the schedule has not been announced, said that Pompeo would welcome Kim on Friday for a meal in Washington before the two are expected to head together to the White House.
Trump has repeatedly voiced eagerness to see Kim Jong Un again after their landmark June summit in Singapore, the first meeting ever between sitting leaders from the two countries that never formally ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Trump has repeatedly hailed his diplomacy as a triumph, recently saying there would have been "a nice big fat war in Asia" if it were not for him.
He has said to expect an announcement soon about the second summit, with diplomats seeing Vietnam and Thailand as possible venues.
In a sign that frictions have eased since the official's no-show in November, Trump -- who has mused that he and Kim Jong Un are "in love" -- said he received a warm new letter from the North Korean leader earlier this month.
For Trump, the made-for-television summitry with the young and elusive North Korean leader also offers a welcome respite from news at home.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is probing whether Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia, and his insistence that Congress fund a wall on the Mexican border has shuttered the US government for nearly a month.
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