TIL Desk/World/Seoul/ South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet for the third time during the inter-Korean summit from September 18 to September 20 in Pyongyang.
As per reports, Moon’s special envoy Chung Eui-yong, who returned from Pyongyang late Wednesday, confirmed the South Korean president’s visit to North Korea.
“First, the South and the North agreed to hold a South-North Korean summit in Pyongyang between September 18 to September 20, and to hold high-level negotiations early next week to prepare for the summit,” Chung said.
A five-member delegation to Pyongyang was headed by Chung and also included the director of the National Intelligence Service, Suh Hoon, and Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung.
The trip to North Korea was largely aimed at setting the date for the third Moon-Kim summit. This will be the third summit between the two Korean leaders. The two, first met in the border village of Panmunjom on April 27, then again on May 26.
