SEOUL, Jan 19, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – South Korea on Saturday welcomed a planned
second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un, saying it hoped the meeting would be a “turning point” for peace on
the Korean peninsula.
The announcement from Seoul’s presidential office came hours after the
White House said Trump would again meet the North Korean leader “near the end
of February” at a location yet to be announced.
“We expect the planned North-US summit would be a turning point in
establishing a permanent peace regimen on the Korean peninsula,” said Kim
Eui-kyeom, South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s spokesman.
South Korea would continue close coordination with its key ally US to
achieve the goal of “complete denuclearisation,” he continued.
He added Seoul would expand dialogue with Pyongyang to make the planned
summit “successful”.
Kim and Trump first met in June in Singapore, where they signed a vaguely
worded document in which with Kim pledged to work towards the
“denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”.
But progress stalled soon afterward as Pyongyang and Washington — which
stations 28,500 troops in South Korea — disagree over what that means.