Kim ‘wants second summit with Trump’
SOUTH Korean President Moon Jae-in has returned home from a three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying that Mr Kim wants the US secretary of state to visit Pyongyang soon for nuclear talks.
Mr Kim also hopes for a quick follow-up to his June summit with Donald Trump and that a formal end to the Korean War can be agreed, his southern counterpart revealed.
Mr Moon told reporters in Seoul that he will carry a private message from Mr Kim for Mr Trump on the nuclear standoff when he meets with the US president in New York next week on the sidelines of the UN general assembly session.
Both Mr Trump and the North Korean leader have expressed a desire to meet again, but there are worries among observers about whether Mr Kim is as committed to denuclearisation as he claims. Mr Moon faces pressure from Washington to find a path forward in efforts to get Mr Kim to completely, and unilaterally, abandon his nuclear arsenal.
Earlier yesterday, Mr Kim and Mr Moon took to the road for the final day of their summit, hiking to the peak of Mount Paektu, which is considered sacred in the North.