Asserting for a second summit, South Korea intends to send special envoy to Pyongyang

NewsBharati    01-Sep-2018
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Seoul, September 1: South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a special envoy to Pyongyang next week to discuss plans to hold a summit with the North's Kim Jong Un and nuclear disarmament.
 
It has been noted that the unnamed envoy will visit the North's capital city. Presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said Seoul proposed the envoy's visit today morning and Pyongyang accepted it a few hours later. 

Kim said 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.

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 after the 1950-53 war that divided the Korean peninsula.

They met a second time in Panmunjom as they scrambled to salvage a summit between Kim and United States 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. In June, Trump and Kim vowed to work towards the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”, although their joint statement was short on details for how that was to be achieved.