Washington
\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday appointed a senior executive with Ford Motor Co to be his special envoy for North Korea and said they both would visit Pyongyang next week.
\nPompeo announced that he had chosen Stephen Biegun to handle day-to-day negotiations with the North over dismantling its nuclear weapons programme.
\nPompeo has been leading the effort for President Donald Trump and has already made three trips to Pyongyang since April, although there have been few visible signs of progress in the talks.<\/p>\n
Biegun, Ford\u2019s vice-president of international governmental affairs, was a White House staffer and aide to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice during President George W Bush\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
He was also an adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and was rumoured to be a contender to replace HR McMaster as Trump\u2019s national security adviser.<\/p>\n
His appointment is the latest in a series of special envoy posts filled by Pompeo, who is seeking to tap veteran diplomats and national security officials to run delicate negotiations.
\nLast week, he appointed the State Department\u2019s policy planning chief, Brian Hook, to run a group dedicated to Iran issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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