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S. Korea’s Moon to send special envoy to N. Korea next week: Yonhap
SEOUL, Aug 31, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in will
send a special envoy to Pyongyang next Wednesday to discuss plans to hold a
summit with the North’s Kim Jong Un and nuclear disarmament, local media said
Friday.
The unnamed envoy will visit the North’s capital city on September 5,
Yonhap news agency said, citing a presidential spokesman.
Seoul proposed the envoy’s visit Friday morning and Pyongyang accepted it a
few hours later, Kim Eui-kyeom said, adding they had not yet who the envoy
will be.
“The envoy will have broad discussions over a detailed schedule for the
inter-Korea summit, development of bilateral ties…and nuclear disarmament
of the Korean peninsula,” Kim was quoted as saying.
Moon and Kim have met face-to-face twice now, the first during a historic
summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom in April.
It was the first time a North Korean leader had ever crossed into the
South.
They met a second time in the truce village as they scrambled to salvage a
summit between Kim and US president Donald Trump in Singapore which
eventually went ahead.
They have since agreed to hold a third summit in Pyongyang at an
unspecified date in September.
BSS/AFP/GMR/1512 hrs