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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 05, 2019, 10:59:49 am
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Report: Top negotiator Kim Yong Chol 'out' in North Korea
SEOUL, April 4 (UPI) -- North Korea's Kim Jong Un may have reshuffled the negotiators who deal with the South, including Kim Yong Chol, a former military intelligence official possibly responsible for the attack on a warship that killed nearly 50 South Koreans.
Kim Yong Chol, who met with U.S. President Donald Trump twice at the White House to deliver letters from the leadership, may no longer be the negotiator for discussions with Seoul or Washington, South Korean television network JTBC reported Thursday.
Kim and other members of Pyongyang's South Korea negotiating team are "out," according to the report.
Read more at: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/04/04/Report-Top-negotiator-Kim-Yong-Chol-out-in-North-Korea/9211554385794/ (https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/04/04/Report-Top-negotiator-Kim-Yong-Chol-out-in-North-Korea/9211554385794/)
It sounds like the North Korean relationship is salvageable. It sounds like signals got crossed, we need to work on this.