by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2018
Delegations from South Korea and North Korea met at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on April 5 to talk about how best to hold upcoming talks.
“The sides held serious and thorough discussions on ways to successfully hold the summit,” Kwun Hyuk-Ki, a spokesman for Seoul’s Cheong Wa Dae Blue House (presidential office), told reporters.
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Conservative alternative media outlets in South Korea have regularly aired concerns that North Korean sympathizers in the Moon government are paving the way for a unified Korea under the sway of Beijing and Pyongyang.
The April 5 talks were held to discuss security measures, protocol and media coverage for the April 27 summit between South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, according to Kwun.
South Korea’s five-member delegation on April 5 was led by Kim Sang-Gyun, a senior director from the National Intelligence Service.
The North’s six-member delegation was led by Kim Chang-Son, an official from Pyongyang’s state affairs commission, which is chaired by Kim Jong-Un, Kwun said.
If the April 27 summit is held, it would mark the first time for a North Korean leader to visit South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. Two previous inter-Korean summits, held in 2000 and 2007, took place in Pyongyang.
South and North Korea remain technically at war, as the Korean War ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.
Moon’s top security adviser, Chung Eui-Yong, traveled to Pyongyang early last month to meet with Kim Jong-Un and an agreement was reached on the inter-Korean summit, as well as on a U.S.-North Korea summit.
U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with Kim by May. The date and location of the Trump-Kim summit have yet to be decided.
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