The Koreas held a high-level meeting in North Korea’s capital on Friday to discuss the implementation of agreements from a summit last month between North
SEOUL – The Koreas held a high-level meeting in North Korea’s capital on Friday to discuss the implementation of agreements from a summit last month between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The meeting in Pyongyang involved South Korea Unification Minster Cho Myoung-gyon and senior North Korean official Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the North Korean agency that deals with inter-Korean affairs. Details of the discussions weren’t immediately available.
The South Korean delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Thursday for peace talks and to celebrate the anniversary of a 2007 summit between the Koreas. Ri, who in the past has been described by South Korean counterparts as hot tempered, expressed irritation after Cho arrived a few minutes late for the meeting.
“You had the chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country waiting in the hallway like he has nothing to do,” Ri said, loudly, when Cho arrived, according to pool reports. Cho laughed and blamed a wristwatch that was set 30 minutes late.
During their most recent summit in Pyongyang last month Kim and Moon said they agreed to reduce the conventional military threat between them and hold another summit in Seoul, possibly within the year. North Korea also said it might dismantle its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex if the United States takes unspecified corresponding measures.
