Kim Yong Chol, considered the right-hand man of leader Kim Jong Un, was the most senior North Korean official to visit the United States in 18 years. Asked about the working dinner, Pompeo told reporters afterwards: “It was great.”“Good working dinner with Kim Yong Chol in New York tonight,” he later tweeted. The United States wants North Korea to agree to “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula. On Sunday, US negotiators, headed by Washington’s ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, began meeting North Korean counterparts in the truce village of Panmunjom that divides the two Koreas. Kim Yong Chol, who is making his first US visit, is the most senior North Korean on US soil since Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok met then-president Bill Clinton in 2000.

Source: Manila Times May 31, 2018 13:37 UTC