We should be paying just as much attention to the re-emergence of Workers' Party of Korea Vice Chairman, and retired general, Kim Yong Chol. That move may have cleared the way for long-time diplomats sidelined during last year’s process to take centerstage if talks with the United States resumed, analysts said. He travelled to the US in January to prepare for the second summit meeting between Mr Kim … “Kim Yong Chol appears to have been pushed back from power since the Hanoi summit,” said Shin Beom-chul, a senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the KCNA named Kim Yong Chol as the 10th person among a group of 12 “leading officials” who accompanied Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, to an amateur art performance by wives of officers in the North Korean Army on Sunday. As Kim Jong Un’s point man for the nuclear talks, Kim Yong Chol was stripped of a key party post in apparent censure for the summit’s collapse, a South Korean lawmaker said in April. Reporting by Joyce Lee; Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Peter Cooney and Clarence Fernandez Sunday’s appearance followed conflicting reports of shakeups in the team that led engagement with the United States last year, only for nuclear talks to collapse after Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump failed to strike a pact at a February summit. On Friday, South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo had said Kim Yong Chol, the leader’s righthand man and a counterpart of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before the failed summit, had been sent to a labor and re-education camp, citing an unidentified North Korean source. SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s former top nuclear envoy, Kim Yong Chol, accompanied leader Kim Jong Un to an art performance, state news agency KCNA said on Monday, signaling that the former spymaster is alive and remains a force in the power structure. Kim Yong-chol (Chosŏn'gŭl: 김영철; sinh năm 1945) là một tướng lĩnh quân đội, chính trị gia người Cộng hòa Dân chủ Nhân dân Triều Tiên hiện trên cương vị là Phó chủ tịch của Đảng Lao động Triều Tiên và Trưởng ban Công tác Mặt trận Thống nhất Triều Tiên.Từ tháng 2 … Asked on Sunday about the last U.S. contact with Kim Yong Chol and North Korea in general, Pompeo declined to answer, saying, “We conduct our negotiations in private.” Asked about reports of a “shakeup” of Kim’s negotiating team in a May 5 interview with ABC News, Pompeo said it did appear that his future counterpart would be somebody else, adding “But we don’t know that for sure.” He said, “Just as President Trump gets to decide who his negotiators will be, Chairman Kim will get to make his own decisions who he asks to have these discussions.” As Kim Jong Un’s point man for the nuclear talks, Kim Yong Chol was stripped of a key party post in apparent censure for the summit’s collapse, a South Korean lawmaker said in April.