Transcript for Ex-North Korean spy chief reportedly heading to US for talks

Sure is The latestst in the nuclear summit with nor koa. All sides scramblto save the talks top north Korean ficial is heading from beiji New York for negtions and U.S. Diplomats mee with north Koreans inside thedmz. ABC's Bob woouff is trackin the latest. Reporter:erght reports that koung ul, close aid to Kim Jong- landed at beijing air apparently planng to continue on to the U for talks. He WOU be the highest ranked north kn official toit th U.S. Since year 2000. 18 years ago. With just 14 days to go before at the white house callshe expeed eting,sident trump and Japanese prime minister shinzo Abe spokey phone late yesterday. South Korea' president moon jae-in is conring heading to Singapore elf to partite in T summit. But theeader who remained relati quiet about the summit is china'ssident XI jinping who many believe is surprised and frustrated by how kly this American plan is progressing. Still, the U.S. Ambasdor in China tolde today that he is okay with it. Does XI jinping lik this idea of having summit Dow in sore? Yes. E Chinese support the ide of the united stat and north koreating becausehey want to see a denuclearization O the Korean peninsula.ey want safy and security ontheir border. Orter: U.S. North Korean official Singapore are hammering out logis and security issues and over the weekend,nrican delegation crossed into north koreak about the ils. It's beenwhirlwind blowing back and forth, trump last Thursday Cal it off, then overhe weekend suggesting it could still happen. I Thi there's a lot of goodwill. I think people to see if we can get the meeting and get something done. Reporr: Now, very intesting that K young chul reportedly heading to the U.S. Accused of international adly attacksnd also for hacking into T sonyictures computers because Jong-un S deeply insulted B Sony's vie "The interview," I ubt, George, he will talkut this subj Let's bng in Jonathan Karl more on this. Jon, no official word on

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