This news came days after the North successfully tested a powerful new missile that analysts believe could reach Alaska when perfected.
(SEOUL) — New South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit the White House next month for a summit with President Donald Trump amid worries over North Korea’s progress in building a nuclear and missile arsenal, Seoul’s presidential office said Tuesday.
The agreement for the leaders to meet in late June followed a meeting in Seoul between Chung Eui-yong, Moon’s foreign policy adviser, and Matt Pottinger, U. S. National Security Council director for East Asia, said Moon’s spokesman Yoon Young-chan.
The announcement Tuesday comes days after North Korea successfully tested a powerful new missile that analysts believe could reach Alaska when perfected.
Yoon said Chung and Pottinger in their meeting reaffirmed that Seoul and Washington shares a common goal in the “complete discarding” of North Korean nuclear weapons and will pursue “all methods, including sanctions and dialogue” to reach the goal.
