North and South Korea will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the South's Yonhap news agency reported today as the two sides held high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.
North and South Korea will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the South's Yonhap news agency reported today as the two sides held high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.
Yonhap did not immediately cite a source for the information. If the South's President Moon Jae-in went to the North's capital it would be the first such trip for more than a decade.
"As the Pyongyang summit of the leaders of North and South Korea is being pursued, I believe that we can give concrete answers to the problems that the people hope and wish for," Ri said during the talks, according to South Korea's Unification Ministry.
North Korea's Kim has a held a flurry of diplomatic summits with the leaders of South Korea, China, and the United States this year.
Moon and Kim also had a surprise meeting at the border in May, making Moon the only South Korean leader to have met a North Korean leader twice. A visit by Moon to Pyongyang would be the first to be held this year in North Korea's capital.
The North has been heavily sanctioned over its pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles but Kim and Trump agreed at their landmark summit in Singapore in June to work towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.
North Korea has denounced US-led efforts to maintain sanctions despite what Pyongyang says are goodwill gestures, including halting its weapons testing and returning the remains of U.S. troops killed in the 1950-1953 Korean War.
US officials familiar with the talks, however, told Reuters that North Korea had yet to agree to a timeline for eliminating its nuclear arsenal or to disclose its size, which U.S. estimates have put at between 30 and 60 warheads.
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