Seoul — A top North Korean general is headed for the US in what would be the highest-profile visit in years, reports said on Tuesday, as the two countries prepare for a momentous summit. Gen Kim Yong-chol landed at Beijing airport on Tuesday and will journey on to New York the following day after talks with Chinese officials, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, which cited diplomatic sources. The trip is part of a flurry of diplomacy as preparations gather pace for the on-again, off-again summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12. US negotiators, headed by Washington’s current ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, met North Korean counterparts on Sunday in the truce village of Panmunjom that divides the two Koreas. The US State Department said a separate team of White House officials had also headed to Singapore to sort out logistics for the historic meeting. Chung Sung-yoon, an analyst at the Korea Institute ...
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