Kim Jong-un’s much anticipated trip to Seoul may be delayed until early next year, Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, told parliamentary leaders on Monday.
K im Jong-un’s much anticipated trip to Seoul may be delayed until early next year, Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, told parliamentary leaders on Monday.
The government is considering whether the visit, which would be the fourth face-to-face meeting between the two leaders and the first ever venture of a North Korean head of state to the South, should fall before or after a second summit between Kim and Donald Trump, the US President.
“For now, we’re making preparations on the assumption that it’s going to take place within this year,” Mr Moon said of his own meeting with Kim, reported the Yonhap news agency.
He added he hoped the visit to Seoul would serve as a dramatic turning point in relations between North and South.
The plan to meet in the South Korean capital was conceived in Pyongyang, during Mr Moon’s high profile first trip to the North in September.
H is three day visit was charged with symbolism, including a spontaneous journey together to Mount Paektu, the spiritual birthplace of the Korean nation, and the president is reported to already be fretting about how he can reciprocate the gesture.
According to UPI, Mr Moon told parliamentarians that he was concerned about the logistics of taking Kim to Mount Halla, a dormant volcano and the highest mountain in South Korea, as promised.
