Kim Yong Chol, who arrived in Washington on Thursday night, held what the U.S. State Department said was "a good discussion" with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Stephen Biegun, U.S. special representative for the DPRK on Friday noon. He then went to the White House to meet Trump.
Robert Palladino, deputy spokesman of the State Department, said in a statement that Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol discussed efforts to make progress on achievements at the Singapore summit, and that Biegun will travel to the Swedish capital of Stockholm Saturday through Tuesday "to participate in an international conference hosted by the Swedish foreign ministry."
The Swedish foreign ministry confirmed on Friday that DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui had arrived in Stockholm for meetings with international experts, without providing further details.
Advancement of diplomatic engagement between Washington and Pyongyang, Ferrier said, "could include initial steps of denuclearization from Pyongyang" in exchange for "concessions from Washington."
The DPRK and the United States remain divided on what denuclearization implies.
Pyongyang insists that denuclearization should cover the entire Korean Peninsula and be achieved through a phased approach, whereas Washington demands a "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearization of the DPRK, without which sanctions against Pyongyang - including those adopted by the United Nations Security Council and those imposed unilaterally by the United States - will be kept in place.
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