South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that world powers needed to reassure North Korea’s Kim Jong Un that he had taken the right decision in committing to scrap his nuclear weapons program. Moon, who has met Kim three times this year, is on a seven-day tour
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that world powers needed to reassure North Korea’s Kim Jong Un that he had taken the right decision in committing to scrap his nuclear weapons program.
Moon, who has met Kim three times this year, is on a seven-day tour of Europe where he is expected to update leaders in Paris, Rome and Brussels on the rapidly thawing relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.
Moon, who met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, said the U. N. Security Council needed to play an « active role » in helping convince the reclusive North Korean leader to fully abandoned his atomic program.
« They need to feel confident that they have made the right choice in accepting to destroy their nuclear weapons, » Moon said at a joint press conference in Paris, adding that France had « a major role to play. »
Ahead of his meeting with Macron, Moon told France’s Le Figaro newspaper that Kim had « expressed his frustration at the continued skepticism of the international community » during their talks.
Moon, who met with his North Korean counterpart in April, May and September, was instrumental in brokering a historic summit in Singapore between US President Donald Trump and Kim in June.
