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International desk: A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang.<\/p>\nInternational desk: A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang.<\/p>\n
The South's President Moon Jae-in Sunday named his top security adviser as a special envoy to the North to discuss details before Moon's planned meeting in Pyongyang with Kim Jong-Un.<\/p>\n
Chung Eui-yong, head of the presidential National Security Office, will lead a five-member delegation to the North's capital on Wednesday, Moon's spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters.<\/p>\n
The delegation, which also includes South Korea's spy chief Suh Hoon, will fly to Pyongyang via a rare direct route across the inter-Korean border for their day trip.<\/p>\n
It will be Chung's second visit to the North since March, when he headed the same five-member team to arrange the first summit between Moon and Kim and met Kim Jong-Un.<\/p>\n
The spokesman said it was unclear whether the delegation would meet the North's leader this time around.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It was the first time a North Korean leader had crossed into the South since the 1950-53 war sealed the division of the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n
They met a second time in Panmunjom in May as they scrambled to salvage plans for a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore, which eventually went ahead on June 12.<\/p>\n
Moon and Kim have since agreed to hold a third summit in Pyongyang at an unspecified date in September.<\/p>\n
The rapid rapprochement on the Korean peninsula led to the landmark meeting between Kim and Trump in June, which the US leader touted as a historic breakthrough.<\/p>\n
At the summit the pair reached a vague agreement to work towards the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, but there has been little movement since.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang has slammed the US for its “gangster-like” demands for complete, verifiable and irreversible disarmament, and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency reported there was no indication that the North had stopped its nuclear activities.<\/p>\n
Last month Trump ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to abruptly cancel a planned trip to Pyongyang, citing lack of progress on denuclearisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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