US President Jeo Biden has appointed Career diplomat Sung Kim as the U.S. special envoy to North Korea. Biden made the comments on Friday at a press conference after receiving his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House. Talks with Pyongyang must focus on "pragmatic steps that will reduce tensions as we move toward our ultimate goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Biden said,

Kim, who until recently was U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, previously served as a special envoy to multilateral six-party talks with North Korea during the Obama years.

Biden said Kim's "deep policy expertise" would help drive efforts to engage diplomatically with North Korea and help "reduce tensions as we move toward our ultimate goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."

Moon, in his remarks, said Kim's appointment showed the Biden administration's "firm commitment of the U.S. to explore diplomacy" with North Korea. Earlier, Biden said both nations were "deeply concerned" about North Korea, and that the U.S. consulted "closely" with Moon's team while reviewing its North Korea policy.

Moon's visit to the White House marks just the second visit of a head of state to the White House during Biden's presidency and the first bilateral meeting of the Biden era without masking in effect; that rule was imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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