Top U.S. nuclear envoy Stephen Biegun is travelling to Europe to sit down with officials on North Korea's final, fully verified denuclearization.<br />His South Korean counterpart is also in Europe this week,... and watchers are seeing this as a chance for Seoul and Washington to coordinate before the North and the U.S. resume working-level talks.<br />Kim Hyo-sun tells us more.<br />Stephen Biegun, Washington's point-man on North Korea, will travel to Europe Monday for talks with his South Korean counterpart and European officials on measures to achieve Pyeongyang's final, fully verified denuclearization.<br />The U.S. State Department explained that Biegun's four-day visit to Brussels and Berlin is aimed at advancing Washington's shared efforts to bring about the regime's FFVD.<br />Seoul's foreign ministry says Lee Do-hoon, Seoul's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will visit Germany this week to hold meetings with Biegun and German officials.<br />There are high hopes for the meetings as they follow the announcement of the resumption of Pyeongyang-Washington working-level talks by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un when they had a hastily-arranged encounter at the DMZ late last month.<br />The focus is on whether the talks could lead to another summit between Kim and Trump.<br />The officials are expected to discuss details of Washington's corresponding measures to Pyeongyang - including humanitarian aid and the establishment of a liaison office.<br />It's left to be seen whether they will also touch upon the issue of resuming the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex and Mount Kumgang tourism project.<br />Some analysts also predict Biegun could meet with North Korean officials in Europe.<br />Ahead of the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Biegun held a series of meetings in Sweden with the North's Vice Foreign Minister Choi Son-hui in January.<br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.<br />
