MIKE POMPEO/NEW YORK/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior North Korean official is headed to New York for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader may go ahead next month…Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee and formerly head of a top North Korean military intelligence agency, will meet with Pompeo later this week, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said…The North Korean envoy was scheduled to fly to the United States on Wednesday [5-30-18] after speaking to Chinese officials in Beijing, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said. The talks show that planning for the unprecedented summit, initially scheduled for June 12, is moving ahead after Trump called it off last week in a letter to the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un. A day later, Trump, who frequently exchanged insults and threats with Kim Jong Un before they began talking about a summit, said he had reconsidered and officials from both countries were meeting to work out details.”
-Josh Smith, Matt Spetalnick, “Senior North Korea envoy to hold talks in U.S. about summit,” Reuters, May 29, 2018 3:44 am