Seoul June 4 (IANS) US and North Korean officials held a fifth round of working-level talks at the border truce village of Panmunjom on Monday to prepare for a planned summit between the leaders of the two countries.
Sung Kim US ambassador to the Philippines and former nuclear envoy is leading the American delegation while the North s team is headed by Pyongyang s Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui reports Yonhap News Agency.
They met in the same place on May 27 May 30 June 2 and 3.
The two sides are expected to focus on narrowing the gaps over how to achieve Pyongyang s complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) and offer in return Washington s security guarantee in the same CVI manner.
The two sides could also discuss the issue of declaring a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War.
On June 1 US President Donald Trump put the planned summit with Kim Jong-un back on track after he cancelled it on May 24 citing "open hostility" from the communist regime.
The reversal came after a conciliatory gesture from Pyongyang and Seoul s mediation.

--IANS ksk