The summit between the leader of the North, Kim Jong-Un, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, the first from the 2007 is scheduled for late April. Pyongyang is also willing to denuclearization and to suspend missile tests, where negotiations with the USA should start again.
This was announced by the South Korean National Security Advisor, Chung Eui-yong, on his return to Seoul after his two-day trip to Pyongyang, where a delegation of nine other officials was received for four hours at dinner. by Kim Jong-un and North Korean leaders.
According to reports from the Seoul presidential office, Pyongyang has pledged not to use nuclear or conventional weapons against the South and is available to freeze its missile and nuclear activities during talks with the United States, if its security it will be guaranteed.
For now there is certainly the summit in late April between Kim and Moon in the village of Panmunjom, at the border along the parallel 38mo, for the reopening of the direct line of communication. This is the third north-south summit, but the other two date back to 2000 and 2007. Kim would open up the possibility of dialogue with the United States during the meeting with the delegation sent to the North by Moon. "President Kim said that even denuclearization could be on the agenda for talks between North Korea and the United States," said Chung, quoted by the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
The North Korean dictator also said that denuclearization was among the dreams of his father, leading North Korea from 1994 until his death, in December 2011.
Kim, the South Korean National Security Adviser continued, expressed the wish to "be treated seriously as a counterpart to the talks".
Optimism was leaked immediately after the meeting between the two delegations in Pyongyang. North Korea wants to "write a new story of national reunification" with the South and its leader, Kim Jong-un, considers the first meeting with the Seoul delegation "satisfactory", assured the KCNA, the news agency of the regime. Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, and his sister, Kim Yo-jong, his special correspondent at the Pyeongchang Winter Games, were also present at the Pyongyang dinner offer. In the Southern delegation also the head of the 007 of Seoul, Suh Hoon, and the National Security Advisor.
"We have started a journey for peace and prosperity, with the condition that we can achieve our goal of achieving peace and denuclearise the Korean Peninsula through our efforts," said South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
