The newly appointed U.S. special envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Sung Kim, will make his first visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK) this week for a possible trilateral meeting with counterparts from Seoul and Tokyo, an official of the ROK Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying Tuesday. 

"We're fine-tuning the schedule of U.S. Special Representative for North Korea (the DPRK) Sung Kim visiting from June 19-23," the official said, according to Yonhap News Agency. "The purpose of the visit is aimed at swiftly carrying out the agreement reached between President Moon and President Biden." 

The visit comes about a month after a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and ROK President Moon Jae-in in Washington. Biden announced Kim's appointment during the summit.

Japan's nuclear envoy Takehiro Funakoshi is also scheduled to visit the ROK when Kim is in Seoul and the three countries are discussing a plan to hold a trilateral meeting of their envoys, the official said. 

The U.S. State Department said it currently had no travel to announce when asked about Kim's plans. 

His appointment came after the Biden administration completed a months-long review of policy on the DPRK and said it would pursue a "calibrated, practical approach" to deal with Pyongyang. The DPRK criticized the Biden administration for trying to maintain a "hostile policy."

Denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled since February 2019, when a summit between then U.S. President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un collapsed.  

Biden said after he met Moon in May that the two leaders shared a willingness to engage diplomatically with the DPRK "to take pragmatic steps to reduce tensions."