U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will be held in Vietnam from February 27th to 28th.
Late February in Vietnam were widely expected but hadn't been officially announced as Pyeongyang and Washington negotiated the next steps after their first summit in Singapore in June.
During his State of the Union address, President Trump said that much work remains to be done, but his relationship with Kim Jong-un is a good one.
On Tuesday’s address, Trump also laid out his administration’s vision for the country focusing on issues of immigration, health care, and economy.
The U.S. Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, arrived in Pyeongyang Wednesday at around 10 AM,
After spending a few days in Seoul and meeting with his South Korean counterpart and Seoul's National Security Advisor, Biegun left for Pyeongyang to attend talks with his North Korean counterpart.
The U.S. State Department confirmed yesterday that Biegun is traveling to the North Korean capital today to meet his new counterpart, Kim Hyok-chol.
According to a South Korean official, there's a high chance that Biegun will spend the night in North Korea to prepare for a second Kim-Trump summit.
The U.S. State Department also said that that Biegun and Kim will prepare for the summit and will touch on issues regarding denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The two men first met last month when Kim accompanied Kim Yong-chol, considered the right-hand man to the North Korean leader, on a visit to Washington.
U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, chairman of the foreign relations subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, says the goal of talks with North Korea needs to be the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula -- the policy known as CVID.
That was in an opinion piece by Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, published just hours ago by Fox News.
He says that there has been no concrete action towards CVID, and without such action, Kim Jong-un will pursue a strategy of delay and non-compliance.
Gardner goes on to advocate "maximum pressure" on North Korea and not letting up until its weapons programs are completely gone.
Source: Arirang News
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