South Korean team to discuss inter-Korean summit with the North
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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. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has today named his top security adviser as a special envoy to the North to discuss details before his planned meeting in Pyongyang with Kim Jong-un. Here's more.
Five-member delegation
Chung Eui-yong will lead five-member delegation to North Korea
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 said. 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. It will be Chung's second visit to the North since March.
Face-to-face meetings
Moon, Kim have met twice so far
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have met face-to-face twice, the first during a historic summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom in April. 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.
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Moon, Kim agreed to hold third summit
Moon and Kim have since agreed to hold a third summit in Pyongyang at an unspecified date in September.