STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — North Korean and US officials on
Saturday were set to resume nuclear talks in Stockholm after months of
deadlock and Pyongyang’s defiant test of a sea-launched ballistic missile
this week.
North Korea’s Kim Myong Gil and Stephen Biegun, the special envoy
of US President Donald Trump, are part of the teams at an island off
Stockholm.
The first cars with tinted windows started arriving just after 9 am
(0700 GMT).
Similar-level talks on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament were held in
Stockholm in March 2018 and then in January this year.
Kim Myong Gil said he was “optimistic” about the talks, speaking in
Beijing on his way to the Swedish capital.
Washington has been eagerly awaiting a resumption of the dialogue, which
has virtually stalled after a Hanoi meeting in late February between Trump
and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. — NNN-AGENCIES
