Senior Kim Jong Un Aide to Meet Trump Later This Week

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Senior Kim Jong Un Aide to Meet Trump Later This Week, Sources Say
By Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs
January 16, 2019, 10:33 AM EST Updated on January 16, 2019, 4:41 PM EST

Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is scheduled to be in Washington Friday as part of negotiations over their country’s nuclear program, according to three of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. Two of the people said his plans included a meeting with Trump. Asked for comment, a State Department spokesman said there were “no meetings to announce.”


An earlier round of talks between the officials, which was supposed to take place in November, was canceled, with the two sides unable to see eye-to-eye on the path forward.

That Trump and Pompeo are planning to meet Kim suggests that talks between the U.S. and North Korea, which had stalled in the months since Trump and Kim Jong Un held a summit in June, may be gaining new momentum.

more:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/senior-kim-jong-un-aide-is-said-to-meet-pompeo-in-u-s-on-friday

The Korea Herald has reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that a flight had been booked for the North Korean delegation to Washington, D.C., to leave for the US Thursday from Beijing.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190116000674