US envoy visits Korea to prepare new summit between Trump and Kim

US Special Envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, traveled today to Seoul to meet with representatives of Pyongyang and prepare the second summit between the 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 scheduled to meet Monday at Inter-Korean border with the new interlocutor of the Pyongyang regime for the dialogue with Washington and former ambbadador of 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 specify date and place second summit between Kim and Trump, after the president of the White House announced two weeks ago that the meeting would take place towards the end of February.

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

Denuclearization blocked

US media reported that the Vietnamese city of Danang, on the coast of the China Sea, is the favorite place of the negotiating teams of both parties to host the new meeting between Trump and Kim, after having also marched in Hanoi and Thailand.

North Korea and the United States are confident that their second meeting at the highest level Unlock 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.