South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and U. S. President Donald Trump plan to discuss North Korea during the U. N. General Assembly in New York this month, Moon’s office and the White House said on Tuesday, amid lackluster progress on the North’s nuclear issues.
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and U. S. President Donald Trump plan to discuss North Korea during the U. N. General Assembly in New York this month, Moon’s office and the White House said on Tuesday, amid lackluster progress on the North’s nuclear issues.
Moon and Trump spoke for 50 minutes by telephone on Tuesday, a day before Moon’s special envoys were due to visit Pyongyang to discuss a third summit to be held this month between the liberal South Korean leader and his North Korean counterpart.
The planned inter-Korean summit follows Trump’s cancellation of a visit to Pyongyang by U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month after Pompeo received a belligerent letter from a senior North Korean official.
Moon and Trump agreed in their call “to explore the idea of meeting in person on the margins of the U. N. General Assembly and having in-depth consultations on strategies and how to cooperate on the peninsula issues,” Moon’s office said in a statement.
