South Korea\u2019s President Moon Jae-in departed on Tuesday for his third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, seeking to cement a breakthrough in faltering nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington.<\/p>\n
The inter-Korean summit will be a litmus test for another meeting Kim has recently proposed to US President Donald Trump, giving clues to whether Kim is serious about denuclearisation, a commitment he made at their first encounter in June.<\/p>\n
Trump has asked Moon to be \u201cchief negotiator\u201d between himself and Kim, according to Moon\u2019s aides, after Trump cancelled a trip to Pyongyang by his secretary of state last month. Washington wants to see concrete signs of denuclearisation by North Korea before agreeing to a key goal of Pyongyang \u2013 declaring an end to the 1950-53<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to have frank dialogue with Chairman Kim on how to find a point of contact between US demands for denuclearisation and North Korea\u2019s demands for ending hostile relations and security guarantees,\u201d Moon told a meeting with senior secretaries on Monday. Underscoring the challenges ahead, North Korea\u2019s official Rodong Sinmun said on Tuesday \u201cthe responsibility falls squarely on the United States\u201d for the stalled nuclear discussions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is due to its nonsensical, irrational stubbornness that other issues can only be discussed after our country has completely verifiably, irreversibly dismantled our nuclear capabilities\u2026 without showing the intention to build trust including declaring the end of war,\u201d the newspaper said in an editorial.<\/p>\n
The two leaders will sit down for formal talks after lunch, which will be followed by a musical performance and welcome dinner. Accompanying corporate executives, including Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee and the chiefs of SK Group and LG Group, will meet with North Korean Deputy Prime Minister Ri Ryong Nam in charge of economic affairs, Im said.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s summit comes as the United States presses other countries to strictly observe UN sanctions aimed at choking off funding for Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, amid growing evidence that North Korea is continuing nuclear weapons development. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Russia on Monday of \u201ccheating\u201d on UN sanctions on North Korea.<\/p>\n
Moon is hoping to engineer a proposal that combines a concrete framework for the North\u2019s denuclearisation and a joint declaration ending the Korean War, Seoul officials said.<\/p>\n
The war ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving US-led UN forces including South Korea technically still at war with the North. But US officials remain \u201cunenthusiastic\u201d about declaring an end to the war without any substantial action toward denuclearisation from the North, Seoul officials said.<\/p>\n
South Korea is pinning high hopes on Kim\u2019s remarks to Moon\u2019s special envoys earlier this month that he wants to achieve denuclearisation within Trump\u2019s first term in office ending in early 2021, the first timeline he has given. Agreeing on a timetable is a core task for Moon, as it would induce U.S. action, said Lee Jung-chul, a professor at Soongsil University in Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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