Kim calls for more Korea talks with Moon in new year Kim’s letter comes days before he is expected to announce major policy decisions and goals in a New Year’s speech.
Kim and Moon met three times in 2018 in an unprecedented thaw in inter-Korean relations [File: KNCA via Reuters]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in asking for talks in the new year, according to Moon’s office.
The Blue House said that Kim expressed regret that he couldn’t make a planned visit to Seoul, South Korea‘s capital, by the end of December, as pledged by the leaders during their last summit in September in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
“Chairman Kim expressed a strong willingness to visit Seoul as he monitors the situation,” South Korean Presidential Spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters in a televised briefing on Sunday.
“Kim also stated that he is willing to meet often with President Moon in 2019 to advance discussions of the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and to resolve together the issue of denuclearising the Korean Peninsula,” said Kim Eui-kyeom.
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