Hossen Sohel: South Korea yesterday said it would dispatch special envoys to the North Korean capital on September 5 to discuss the timing of a summit between the two countries’ leaders expected to take place later in the month, reports Reuters.
The special envoy will also discuss “establishing peace,” “advancing inter-Korean ties,” and the “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” said Kim Eui-kyeom, a representative for South Korea’s presidential Blue House. The South had earlier yesterday proposed sending the envoys, and the North accepted, Kim said. He did not identify who the envoys would be.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in would be the first South Korean president to visit Pyongyang since 2007, but the planned summit has been overshadowed by signs of mounting tension between North Korea and the United States over the future of the North’s nuclear weapons program.