Two Koreas plan September summit in latest step to warmer relations
Talks about a peace declaration and joint infrastructure projects are on the cards, but uncertainty around the North’s denuclearisation remains a major stumbling block
North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step towards boosting co-operation between the old rivals, even as doubts grow over efforts to end the North’s nuclear weapons programme. Officials from both sides meeting in the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarised zone that separates the two Koreas, reached an agreement on a September summit between the countries’ leaders in the North’s capital of Pyongyang. No date was announced for what will be the third meeting this year between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
They first met in April in Panmunjom, a remarkable thaw in ties after more than a year of rising tension and fears of war over the North’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles...
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