Top North Korean Official Reappears Days After Purge Report

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and Kim Yong Chol, Vice Chairman of the North Korean Workers' Party Committee, attend the extended bilateral meeting in the Metropole hotel with U.S. President Donald Trump and his delegation during the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 28, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis

SEOUL—North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said on Monday that their former top nuclear envoy, Kim Yong Chol, accompanied leader Kim Jong Un to an art performance on Sunday, signaling that the former spymaster is alive.

The May 2 reappearance followed conflicting reports of shakeups in the team that led engagement with the United States last year, only for nuclear talks to collapse after Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump failed to strike a pact at a February summit.