{"id":31841,"date":"2019-02-05T03:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31841"},"modified":"2019-02-05T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:49","slug":"us-envoy-to-head-to-n-korea-to-prepare-second-trump-kim-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31841","title":{"rendered":"US envoy to head to N Korea to prepare second Trump-Kim summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US State Department has said Washington’s special envoy for North Korea<\/a> would head to Pyongyang on Wednesday to hold preparatory talks for a second summit between President Donald Trump<\/a> and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The statement on Monday came days after US envoy Stephen Biegun said he aimed in working-level negotiations with his new North Korean counterpart, Kim Hyok Chol, to map out “a set of concrete deliverables” for the much-anticipated meeting, which is expected to take place at the end of February, most likely in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation programme on Sunday, Trump said<\/a> the upcoming summit with Kim “is set”, adding that he saw a “good chance” of the two sides reaching a deal on denuclearisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I think he’s also tired of going through what he’s going through,” said Trump, referring to the international sanctions pressing on Kim’s government.<\/p>\n

“He has a chance to have North Korea be a tremendous economic behemoth,” Trump added. “He can’t do that with nuclear weapons and he can’t do that on the path they’re on now.”<\/p>\n

In his annual New Year’s address<\/a> last month, Kim renewed his commitment to denuclearisation but warned that he might have no option but to seek an alternative course if the United States<\/a>\u00a0did not take corresponding measures and maintained sanctions.<\/p>\n

“I am ready to sit with the US president again at any time in the future and will make efforts by all means to produce a result that will be welcomed by the international community,” Kim said.<\/p>\n

The first meeting between Kim and Trump last June in Singapore produced a vaguely worded document in which the North Korean leader pledged to work towards “the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”.<\/p>\n

But progress has since stalled with the two sides disagreeing over the interpretation of their agreement.<\/p>\n

Biegun on Monday met in Seoul Chung Eui-yong, South Korea’s national security adviser<\/span>, a day after holding talks with South Korean Foreign Ministry official Lee Do-hoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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