SEOUL, South Korea — Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, arrived in South Korea Sunday for working-level talks on a proposed second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Yonhap News reported. Biegun plans to meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Hyok Chol to discuss the agenda and other issues before the summit scheduled for this month, Yonhap said, citing a diplomatic source it didn’t identify. President Donald Trump has said he will announce the time and location of the second summit with Kim early next week. Separately, Biegun will visit the South Korean presidential Blue House Monday to meet with Chung Eui-yong, South Korea’s national security adviser, YTN reported, citing an unidentified Blue House official.
Biegun will meet North Korean officials Feb. 5 and the venue could be its capital of Pyongyang or the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom, according to YTN.
WASHINGTON —The Defense Department will send about 3,750 more troops to U.S.-Mexico border, raising the number of active-duty troops there to about 4,350, the Pentagon said Sunday.
The troops will provide support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including a mobile surveillance capability through the end of September, and they will lay about 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry, the Defense Department said in a statement.
“Additional units are being deployed for 90 days, and we will continue to evaluate the force composition required to meet the mission to protect and secure the southern border,” the Pentagon said.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that more than 3,500 active-duty troops would be sent to the border, citing Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. The U.S. sent almost 6,000 troops to the southwest border before the midterm elections in November, but withdrew many of them weeks later.
— Wire reports