S.Korea-US hold phone talks over Kim-Trump summit

Seoul June 4 (IANS) Top South Korean and American diplomats held a telephonic conversation on Monday exchanging opinions and discussing the progress over an the June 12 summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who spoke for about 15 minutes agreed to seek ways through close consultations to achieve a complete denuclearisation and a lasting peace settlement on the Korean Peninsula according to Seoul s Foreign Ministry.
Kang and Pompeo also exchanged opinions over the recent visit by senior North Korean leader Kim Yong-chol to Washington to meet Trump Xinhua news agency reported.
After meeting the official Trump said on June 1 that he will meet Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore as originally scheduled.
Kim Yong-chol who held a two-day meeting with Pompeo in New York before heading to Washington delivered the North Korean leader s personal letter to Trump.
Earlier in May Trump had abruptly cancelled his meeting with the North Korean leader.

--IANS and/ksk