South Korea’s team meets Kim Jong-un
The South hopes the contact will pave the way for further talks — both bilateral and with other countries
Seoul — A South Korean delegation met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Monday, a South Korean official said, after arriving in the North on a visit aimed at encouraging North Korea and the US to talk. Both North Korea and the US have expressed a willingness to talk, but the long-held US position is that North Korea first give up its nuclear weapons development programme. North Korea, which has vowed never to give up its nuclear deterrent against what it sees as US hostility, says it will not sit down to talks under any preconditions. North Korea, which has made no secret of its pursuit of a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the mainland US in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, is also concerned about joint US-South Korea military exercises, which it sees as preparation for war. South Korean officials have said the drills will start in April as planned, after being postponed for the Winter Olympics held in February in South Korea. A 10-member South Korean delegat...
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