Working-level negotiations in Stockholm between North Korea and the United States were not “interrupted” in early October, Kent Härstedt, Sweden’s Special Envoy for the Korean Peninsula, told reporters in Seoul on Wednesday.

While in its mediating role Sweden was not a direct witness to negotiations between the two sides in Stockholm, Härstedt said he understood the encounter had constituted a “good meeting.”

“It’s been perceived that this was a meeting that this was interrupted,” he said. “And I can say it was not interrupted: it was a full meeting and lasted a little bit longer than planned.”

Noting it was not Stockholm’s role to