UPDATE AT 1710 KST: This article has been amended to include comments from a senior State Department official. 

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a preliminary meeting over dinner with high-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong Chol in New York on Wednesday evening local time.

In a Twitter post following the meeting, Pompeo described it as a “good working dinner.”

The two are set to hold a full day of meetings on Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said during a press briefing Wednesday afternoon.

The late Wednesday dinner took placenear the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan at the