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...Kang Chol-hwan, a Seoul-based defector, said prices for food and basic goods have soared between three and 10 times. “It feels like the Kim regime is slowly getting paralysed,” he said....
...“Many countries are left with ‘bitter tastes’ as a result of pinning much hope on the American ‘aid’ and ‘humanitarian assistance’,” wrote Kang Hyon-chol, a senior researcher in the foreign ministry’s Association...
...Kang Chol-hwan, a North Korean defector who said he regularly spoke to people inside the country, described the market trading system as “almost paralysed”....
...Kim Jong Chol, the leader’s elder brother, is described as effeminate, lacking ambition and more focused on his love for Eric Clapton and guitars than leadership, according to Washington Post journalist...
...Mr Bolton recalls one incident when Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean official who made an unprecedented visit to the White House, presented Mr Trump with his first letter from Kim Jong Un....
...Early on in John Bolton’s tenure as Donald Trump’s national security adviser, the president stunned his staff by impulsively inviting Kim Yong Chol to the Oval Office for an exchange of pleasantries....
...officials had been executed, including Kim Hyok Chol, special envoy to the US....
...Kim Yong Chol is undergoing hard labour in Jagang province after his dismissal, the newspaper said....
...Chol, the country’s special envoy to the US....
...The newspaper, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, said Mr Kim’s intentions were conveyed to Mr Trump during Kim Yong Chol’s US visit....
...“But Kim Yong Chol does seem to be one of the officials that has his ear.”...
...When Kim Yong-chol visited Washington last week we made further progress, not only in the discussions that he had with the president, but Special Representative Biegun had the opportunity to meet with his...
...The two leaders sat down to a formal dinner with top aides, including Mr Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol, Mr Kim’s main negotiator....
...Spanish media believe that the plot was meant to gain information on Kim Hyok Chol....
...Mr Kim’s delegation included Kim Yong Chol, a top aide; his sister Kim Yo Jong, and Ri Yong Ho, North Korea’s foreign minister, state media reported....
...Mr Kim left for China on a private train accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol Ju, and other senior officials, including Kim Yong Chol and Ri Yong Ho, both prominent diplomats, according to the Korean Central...
...According to the White House, Mr Kim was to be joined by Kim Yong Chol, his main negotiator, and Ri Yong Ho, the North Korean foreign minister....
...“My relationship with Kim Yong Chol is professional,” said Mr Pompeo. “We have detailed conversations. I expect that we will continue to do that.”...
...Mr Pompeo, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos via satellite link on Tuesday, said the two sides had made further progress when Kim Yong Chol, North Korea’s chief nuclear envoy, met US president...
...The meeting between Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, and Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was due to take place in New York later this week, but has now been postponed to...
...North Korea executes high-level officials North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the US, and four other negotiators in the fallout from the failed February summit in Hanoi between Kim...
...Kim Yong Chol, the most senior North Korean to visit the US since Jo Myong Rok, a vice-marshal, met Bill Clinton in 2000, carried a letter from Kim Jong Un for Mr Trump....
...His name is Kim Yong-chol, and he is the vice-chairman of the Workers' party of North Korea. He is a very close and trusted aide to Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader....
...The president made the abrupt move after reportedly receiving a belligerent letter from Kim Yong Chol, a top North Korean official, who warned that the trip would not be successful....
...Speaking before boarding Air Force One, Mr Trump said Kim Yong Chol, a close adviser to Kim Jong Un who has spent the past two days in New York meeting Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, would carry a letter...
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