Trump’s Top North Korea Envoy Urges Kim to Return to Talks
- U.S., North Korea must agree on end goal, Biegun says
- Deputy secretary of state disappointed more not achieved
Stephen Biegun during a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, on Dec. 9.
Photographer: Jang Dong-Gyu-Korea/Pool/Getty Images
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s top North Korea envoy urged Kim Jong Un to return to talks, while expressing disappointment that negotiations since the two leaders first met didn’t achieve more.
Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Stephen Biegun made his appeal in a speech Thursday in Seoul that appeared intended to bolster the Trump administration’s legacy of unprecedented engagement with Pyongyang. Biegun expressed continued belief in the need for a “complete recasting of relations” between the two longtime enemies, while acknowledging it “has yet to deliver the success we hoped for.”