The US president Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in met at the White House on Friday.
The two appointed a special envoy to North Korea to "engage in dialog." The two also expressed deep concerns about Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal at a news conference on Friday.
“We both are deeply concerned about the situation,” Biden said, speaking alongside Moon. “Our two nations also share a willingness to engage diplomatically with [North Korea] to take pragmatic steps that will reduce tensions” on the Korean Peninsula.
To help drive that effort, Biden said, veteran State Department official Sung Kim would serve as a special US envoy for North Korea.
A Korean-American diplomat, Sung Kim served as a special envoy for North Korea under former President Barack Obama and helped set up former President Donald Trump’s summits with Kim.
