The head of South Korea's National Intelligence Agency is due to meet on Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo... to brief him on his recent visit to North Korea.
It's expected Suh Hoon will convey Kim Jong-un's reported willingness to denuclearize and ask for Japan's support in reviving talks between Pyongyang and Washington to that end.
Meanwhile, another top South Korean envoy who visited the North, National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, returned from Beijing on Sunday.
He briefed Chinese officials on the Kim Jong-un meeting and agreed with them to work on arranging a summit between Presidents Moon Jae-in and Xi Jinping later this year.
Chung is due to talk about that Beijing meeting and his North Korea trip ... in a phone call with his U.S. counterpart John Bolton.