The delegation, announced by Moon’s office on Sunday, is the latest chapter in a remarkable Olympics-driven detente between the two Koreas.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is seen during the inspection of a potato flour factory in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. (Reuters)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a team of special envoys — including Seoul’s spy chief — to the North tomorrow to push for talks between Washington and Pyongyang on nuclear weapons.
The delegation, announced by Moon’s office on Sunday, is the latest chapter in a remarkable Olympics-driven detente between the two Koreas.
An intense rapprochement saw the two foes march together at the South’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended February 25, with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un sending his sister as a special envoy to the event.
Kim Yo Jong’s appearance at the Games’ opening ceremony made global headlines, marking the first visit to the South by a member of the Kim family since the end of the Korean war.
Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Games to open dialogue between the US and the North in the hopes of easing a nuclear standoff that has heightened fears over global security.
