Our top story this morning...<br />Senior officials from North Korea and the United States have kicked off working-level talks in Sweden.<br />They are hoping to make progress on a second summit between their leaders,... which the White House says will take place near the end of next month.<br />Kim Hyo-sun reports. <br />Working-level talks between delegations of North Korea and the United States are being held in Sweden,... in an effort to prepare for a second Kim-Trump summit. <br />North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui and U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun kicked off their meeting on Saturday local time,... and haven't appeared in public since.<br />This is their first meeting since Biegun became Washington's special representative for North Korea in August last year. <br />South Korea's nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon has also joined them for three-way talks,... which are likely to focus on setting the summit agenda.<br />The three officials are meeting at a highly-secured retreat located some 50 kilometers northwest of Stockholm. <br />This comes as Pyeongyang's top nuclear envoy Kim Yong-chol arrived in Beijing on Sunday,... after wrapping up his three day visit to Washington.<br />He met with President Trump to discuss the details of a second summit,... and also hand-delivered a personal letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<br />Last Friday,... when the North Korean official met U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,... Pompeo said it's time for Pyeongyang's denuclearization commitments to be executed and implemented. <br />He revealed his remarks during an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group,... as he described the Trump administration's efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.<br />Now, it's left to be seen whether the talks in Sweden can break the current deadlock over denuclearization talks and lead to a productive second summit.<br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News. <br />
