North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he will visit Seoul «in the near future,» amid an ongoing summit with South Korea’s Moon Jae…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he will visit Seoul «in the near future,» amid an ongoing summit with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in in which he also renewed pledges to shut down a primary missile launch site and a key nuclear weapons complex if the U. S. takes «corresponding» measures.
Kim’s remarks about traveling to Seoul were made during a news conference in Pyongyang with the South Korean president. It would be the first-ever visit to the South Korean capital by a North Korean head of state.
In their third summit, Kim and Moon also laid out plans to draw down forces along their heavily fortified border and announced an agreement for their athletes to compete as a single team at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and to submit a joint bid to host the games in 2032.
In addition, the two leaders agreed that before the end of the year, they would participate in groundbreaking ceremonies to link railways along the east and west coasts of the Korean peninsula.
Moon said that the two sides agreed that the Koreas should become a «land of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.» Kim called the agreement «a leap forward» toward peace between the two historically bitter rivals.
In it, defense chiefs from Pyongyang and Seoul said they would establish «buffer zones» between their land and maritime borders to reduce the possibility of accidental military clashes.
