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Associated Press

North Korea has formally named Kim Song as its new ambassador to the United Nations, a position that has been vacant for more than a month, state media reported Thursday. The appointment came after he recently received his visa to begin work at his post in New York.
Because his visa was not issued soon after his application in late May, there was talk that the United States was intentionally delaying the process amid slow progress in denuclearisation talks with North Korea.
Kim had previously been posted in New York as a counsellor with the country’s mission.

His predecessor, Ja Song-nam, left at the end of July after having served as North Korea’s top representative at the UN headquarters since February 2014.
The White House said Monday that Washington is looking at a second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after the latter made a written request for such a meeting.
US says envoy’s trip shows progress toward revival of North Korea﻿ talks
In the first-ever US-North Korea summit, Kim committed to “complete” denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. But Pyongyang has yet to provide a full inventory of its nuclear weapons and fissile materials, as Washington has demanded.
Watch: North Korea shifts diplomatic strategy


Nor has North Korea presented a road map for denuclearisation, except for Kim saying recently he hopes to achieve denuclearisation before the end of Trump’s first term in January 2021.
The North, for its part, has insisted that the United States first declare a formal end to the Korean war, which was halted with an armistice rather than a peace treaty in 1953.


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North Korea appoints Kim Song as new ambassador to United Nations

Kim Song, at front. Photo: YouTube

North Korea's Ambassador to the UN Ja Song Nam attends the United Nations Security Council meeting on North Korea's nuclear program at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

US says special envoy’s Asia trip shows progress toward revival of North Korea denuclearisation talks

The new US special representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun is in the middle of a trip to South Korea, China and Japan in a bid to help restart denuclearisation talks. Photo: EPA-EFE

Harry's View for September 11, 2018. Image: Harry Harrison

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens to President Donald Trump speak during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Washington, D.C. On Friday Trump acknowledged that North Korea has not begu to denclearize, and told Pompeo to cancel his trip to Pyongyang. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

North Korea’s ravaged forests and the South Koreans ready to replant them

The Korean peninsula was left denuded by decades of colonial rule, war and hardship, but today forest cover in South Korea is double the global average, and it aims to export its green expertise across the 38th Parallel

--ONE TIME USE ONLY, RE-USE WILL BE CHARGED AT POST MAGAZINE RATES- Inside the DMZ, or Korea's demilitarized zone, signs hang along the forest path a stark warning of the thousands of land mines buried in the soundings forests and mountains, along the DMZ, in Seoul, South Korea on June 11, 2018. 11JUN18 [05AUGUST2018 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: Jonas Gratzer

Autumn in South Korea’s Naejangsan National Park. Picture: Alamy

--ONE TIME USE ONLY, RE-USE WILL BE CHARGED AT POST MAGAZINE RATES- German Erika Jenniches ( to the left ) and her friends retreat to the greenery at Mount Namsan, when they need a escape from the bustling city life and the air pollutions in Seoul, South Korea on June 04, 2018. 04JUN18 [05AUGUST2018 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: Jonas Gratzer

--ONE TIME USE ONLY, RE-USE WILL BE CHARGED AT POST MAGAZINE RATES- Retired diplomat Chung Il (R) and his colleague discuss the fauna of the new planted forest that grows in South Korea's part of the DMZ, on June11, 2018. 11JUN18 [05AUGUST2018 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: Jonas Gratzer

--ONE TIME USE ONLY, RE-USE WILL BE CHARGED AT POST MAGAZINE RATES- Chinese tourist Andrew Zheng and his family enjoying the clean Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul, South Korea on June 07, 2018. 07JUN18 [05AUGUST2018 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: Jonas Gratzer

BXMTFJ clearing cut bunkers 2 men of the 1st Squadron, 2nd Platoon, Company B, 187th RCT, 2nd U.S. Infantry Division clear out bunker [05AUGUST2018 FEATURE POST MAGAZINE] CREDIT: ALAMY

A Korea Forest Service researcher tends plants at the National DMZ Botanical Garden in South Korea. Pictures: Jonas Gratzer

North Korea, South Korea to hold military talks before Kim-Moon summit

South Korean officials visit Panmunjom on Friday. The third Inter-Korean summit will take place from September 18 to 20 in Pyongyang. Photo: EPA

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