ZCZC
BFF-17
NKOREA-SKOREA-US-DIPLOMACY
N. Korea recommits to denuclearisation of Korean peninsula
SEOUL, Sept 6, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un renewed
his commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula in talks with
a special envoy from the South, the North’s state media said Thursday.
“The north and the south should further their efforts to realise the
denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” KCNA cited Kim as saying.
“It is our fixed stand and his will to completely remove the danger of
armed conflict and horror of war from the Korean peninsula and turn it into
the cradle of peace without nuclear weapons and free from nuclear threat,” it
added.
He made the remarks as he received a high-level South Korean delegation in
Pyongyang on Wednesday, for discussions aimed at planning a new inter-Korean
summit, and breaking the deadlock in denuclearisation talks between the North
and the US.
Kim exchanged “wide-ranging opinions” with the delegation over the
schedule for the Pyongyang summit due in September and its agenda, and “came
to a satisfactory agreement”, the report said without naming a specific date.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 0915 hrs