S.Korean diplomats fly to Pyongyang to prepare for next summit
Wednesday - September 5, 2018 1:54 pm ,
Category : WORLD
Seoul Sep 5 (IANS) A group of South Korean envoys travelled to Pyongyang on Wednesday to prepare for an upcoming inter-Korean summit and help re-start stalled talks between the US and North Korea.
The five-member delegation led by Chung Eui-yong head of the National Security Office will deliver a letter from South Korean President Moon Jae-in to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Efe news reported.
The main objective of the visit would be to fix a date for the next Kim-Moon summit scheduled for September in Pyongyang.
The delegation will also discuss ways to implement the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the inter-Korean summit in April in which both leaders had pledged complete denuclearisation on the peninsula said Chung.
During a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday Moon had assured the latter that he would keep Washington informed of the outcomes of Wednesday s meeting.
At the US-North Korea summit in Singapore in June Kim and Trump had agreed to improve bilateral ties and work toward North Korea s nuclear disarmament.
North Korea had also promised to dismantle its nuclear arsenal in return for a peace treaty with South Korea to definitively end the Korean War.
--IANS mag/sed
The five-member delegation led by Chung Eui-yong head of the National Security Office will deliver a letter from South Korean President Moon Jae-in to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un Efe news reported.
The main objective of the visit would be to fix a date for the next Kim-Moon summit scheduled for September in Pyongyang.
The delegation will also discuss ways to implement the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the inter-Korean summit in April in which both leaders had pledged complete denuclearisation on the peninsula said Chung.
During a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday Moon had assured the latter that he would keep Washington informed of the outcomes of Wednesday s meeting.
At the US-North Korea summit in Singapore in June Kim and Trump had agreed to improve bilateral ties and work toward North Korea s nuclear disarmament.
North Korea had also promised to dismantle its nuclear arsenal in return for a peace treaty with South Korea to definitively end the Korean War.
--IANS mag/sed
