Seoul: A South Korean businessman has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is planning to visit<\/b>
\nSeoul: A South Korean businessman has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is planning to visit Seoul in December this year.
Sohn Kyung-shik, who is the chief of South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, was part of the delegation that accompanied President Moon Jae-in during his visit to North Korea for the meeting with Kim earlier this week.
Yonhap News Agency quoted Sohn as saying, \u201cChairman Kim Jong-un said he will come to Seoul in December.\u201d He, however, added that the exact date has not been finalised, and it would depend on the timing of South Korean government\u2019s invitation.
Quizzed on his prospects for inter-Korean economic initiatives, Sohn underlined that such a development \u201cwill go along with developments of (nuclear) negotiations and the railway project would come first.\u201d
Addressing a press conference with President Moon after the summit, Kim said that he would visit Seoul in the \u201cnear future.\u201d However, the South Korean president, later clarified that Kim\u2019s remarks meant \u201cthis year\u201d.
On September 18, President Moon visited in Pyongyang, which was the first trip by a South Korean head of state. The visit was largely aimed at brokering the stalled talks between North Korea and the United States over the former\u2019s progress of denuclearisation and to discuss steps to further improve inter-Korean ties.
The two Koreas signed a joint military agreement and a joint statement to cease hostilities and working for peace on the peninsula. The two sides also agreed to take \u201cadditional steps\u201d to achieve the process of denuclearisation.<\/p>\n

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