SEOUL: A best North Korean basic is headed for the United States in what will be the highest-profile consult with in years, stories said Tuesday as the 2 international locations prepare for a momentous summit.
General Kim Yong Chol landed at Beijing airport on Tuesday on strategy to New York, day after talks with Chinese officers, in keeping with South Korea's Yonhap news company, which cited diplomatic assets.
The shuttle is part of a flurry of international relations as arrangements gather tempo for the on-again, off-again summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's chief Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.
US negotiators, headed by way of Washington's present ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, met with North Korean counterparts in the truce village of Panmunjom that divides the 2 Koreas on Sunday.
The State Department said a separate crew of White House officers has also headed to Singapore to kind out logistics for the historical assembly.
Chung Sung-yoon, an analyst on the Korea Institute for National Unification, said Kim Yong Chol will be the most senior North Korean legit to step onto US soil since Vice Marshall Jo Myong Rok met President Bill Clinton in 2000.
The basic has long been a proper hand guy to North Korea's chief, enjoying a front-seat position all the way through contemporary rounds of international relations geared toward finishing the nuclear stalemate on the Korean peninsula.
He sat subsequent to Trump's daughter Ivanka, who could also be a White House aide, all the way through the remaining rite of the Winter Olympics in the South Korean resort of Pyeongchang which was once a turning level in the nuclear disaster.
He also accompanied Kim Jong Un on both of his contemporary journeys to China to meet President Xi Jinping and held talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he travelled to Pyongyang.
"Kim's official counterpart is Pompeo but he may also push for meetings with (National Security Advisor John) Bolton and even Trump if possible," Chung instructed AFP.
General Kim, whose legit title is vice-chairman of the central committee of North Korea's Workers' Party, has a background in army and civilian intelligence agencies and is a deeply debatable figure in South Korea.
Seoul blames him for masterminding the 2010 sinking of the South Korean army corvette the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors, an attack North Korea denies enjoying any position in.
Relatives of those that died protested his presence on the Winter Olympics earlier this yr.
From 2009 to 2016 he was once also director of North Korea's General Reconnaissance Bureau, the unit tasked with cyber war and intelligence accumulating.
During that period North Korea ramped up its hacking programmes, together with a vastly expensive penetration of Sony Pictures that was once seen as an try to forestall the release of an American comedy movie poking a laugh on the Kim Jong Un regime.
General Kim Yong Chol landed at Beijing airport on Tuesday on strategy to New York, day after talks with Chinese officers, in keeping with South Korea's Yonhap news company, which cited diplomatic assets.
The shuttle is part of a flurry of international relations as arrangements gather tempo for the on-again, off-again summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's chief Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.
US negotiators, headed by way of Washington's present ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, met with North Korean counterparts in the truce village of Panmunjom that divides the 2 Koreas on Sunday.
The State Department said a separate crew of White House officers has also headed to Singapore to kind out logistics for the historical assembly.
Chung Sung-yoon, an analyst on the Korea Institute for National Unification, said Kim Yong Chol will be the most senior North Korean legit to step onto US soil since Vice Marshall Jo Myong Rok met President Bill Clinton in 2000.
The basic has long been a proper hand guy to North Korea's chief, enjoying a front-seat position all the way through contemporary rounds of international relations geared toward finishing the nuclear stalemate on the Korean peninsula.
He sat subsequent to Trump's daughter Ivanka, who could also be a White House aide, all the way through the remaining rite of the Winter Olympics in the South Korean resort of Pyeongchang which was once a turning level in the nuclear disaster.
He also accompanied Kim Jong Un on both of his contemporary journeys to China to meet President Xi Jinping and held talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo when he travelled to Pyongyang.
"Kim's official counterpart is Pompeo but he may also push for meetings with (National Security Advisor John) Bolton and even Trump if possible," Chung instructed AFP.
General Kim, whose legit title is vice-chairman of the central committee of North Korea's Workers' Party, has a background in army and civilian intelligence agencies and is a deeply debatable figure in South Korea.
Seoul blames him for masterminding the 2010 sinking of the South Korean army corvette the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors, an attack North Korea denies enjoying any position in.
Relatives of those that died protested his presence on the Winter Olympics earlier this yr.
From 2009 to 2016 he was once also director of North Korea's General Reconnaissance Bureau, the unit tasked with cyber war and intelligence accumulating.
During that period North Korea ramped up its hacking programmes, together with a vastly expensive penetration of Sony Pictures that was once seen as an try to forestall the release of an American comedy movie poking a laugh on the Kim Jong Un regime.
Top North Korean general on way to US ahead of summit: Report
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