The US special envoy went to South Korea to prepare the new summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un

The US Special Envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, traveled to Seoul on Sunday to meet with representatives of Pyongyang and prepare the second summit between leaders of the two countries, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, planned for the end of February.

After arriving in Seoul, Biegun will meet South Korea's delegate for the denuclearization of North Korea, Lee Do-hoon, to coordinate their countries' positions on dialogue with the North Korean regime. -he adds. South Korean sources at the local news agency Yonhap.

The US envoy is due to meet on Monday at the inter-Korean border with the new interlocutor of the Pyongyang regime for dialogue with Washington and the former ambbadador of Canada. North Korea in Spain, Kim Hyok-chol, in order to finalize the details of the summit, according to the same sources.

It is hoped that these meetings will serve to clarify the date and venue of the second summit between Kim and Trump, after the White House president announced two weeks ago that the meeting would be held towards the end of February.

Kim Hyok-chol He was part of the delegation that accompanied North Korean intelligence chief Kim Yong-chol on his trip to Washington in mid-January to meet Trump and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and progress in the preparations. Summit.

US media reported that the Vietnamese city of Danang, on the coast of the China Sea, is the favorite place for negotiating teams on both sides to welcome the new meeting between Trump and Kim, after also facing Hanoi and the Thailand. as possible places.

North Korea and the United States hope that their second meeting at the highest level will open the dialogue on denuclearization.

At their first summit in Singapore last June, Kim and Trump agreed to work towards the denuclearization of North Korea in exchange for Washington guaranteeing the survival of the regime that controls that country, but the process has made little progress in Absence of a road map.