Senior officials from North Korea and the United States ended their three-day working-level talks in Sweden to prepare for the second summit between their leaders.
U.S. Special Representative Stephen Biegun left the convention Monday morning local time.
Arriving at a hotel in the Swedish capital,Biegun said he had a nice meeting with his counterpart.
Later in the day, a vehicle carrying North Korea's vice foreign minister Choe Son-hui also left the venue.
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon also took part in the three-way talks to seek a breakthrough on denuclearization.
As the delegations of the three countries are scheduled to leave Sweden on Tuesday, there is also the possibility of them sitting down for additional talks in Stockholm.
A U.S. think tank has unveiled a North Korean missile base that it says has yet to be declared by the regime.
According to Beyond Parallel, a project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, the Sino-ri missile operating base,some 210 kilometers north of the Demilitarized Zone, is one of the oldest of the 20 or so such bases undeclared by North Korea.
The report says the base houses a regiment-sized unit,equipped with Nodong-1 medium-range ballistic missiles, and could have also played a role in developing the KN-15 ballistic missile that was first tested in early 2017.
Following a closed-door meeting with lawmakers on Monday,South Korea's foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha revealed Seoul and Washington profoundly disagree over defense cost sharing.
Kang's remarks to reporters came after she had phone talks with her American counterpart Mike Pompeo earlier in the day.
Kang said Seoul will exert all its efforts to reach a deal that is affordable, rational and convincing to the National Assembly and the South Korean people.
South Korea's defense ministry has once again urged Japan to accept a scientific and objective process to verify the facts in the two side's recent military dispute.
This comes after Tokyo released audio files Monday that it claims to prove a Japanese patrol aircraft was targeted by a South Korean warship in the East Sea.
Source: Arirang News
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