What goes on inside the secretive, semi-official talks between the North Korea, the US, and South Korea

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• North Korea will hold “track 1.5 talks” with the US and South Korea this week in Finland to discuss a US-North Korea summit and an inter-Korea summit.
• There are three types of talks between countries. Track 1 is official, track 1.5 is unofficial and involves government staff as well as external experts, and track 2 doesn’t involve the government at all.
• Track 1.5 and track 2 talks between the US and North Korea are relatively common

A North Korean diplomat responsible for relations with the US will be holding semiofficial talks with South Korea and the US in Finland this week, the foreign ministries of South Korea and Finland have confirmed.

After boarding a flight to Finland from Beijing, Choe Kang Il, North Korea’s deputy director-general for North American affairs, is expected to discuss a US-North Korea summit, which President Donald Trump said would happen by May, and an upcoming inter-Korean summit.

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