South Korean leader steps in to break nuclear deadlock at Pyongyang summit
Seoul — South Korean President Moon Jae-in will travel to Pyongyang this week for his third summit with Kim Jong-un, aiming to break the deadlock in nuclear talks between North Korea and the US. Moon, whose parents fled the North during the 1950-53 Korean War, flies to Pyongyang on Tuesday for a three-day trip, following in the footsteps of his predecessors Kim Dae-jung in 2000 and mentor Roh Moo-hyun in 2007. The visit comes after the North staged its "mass games" propaganda display for the first time in five years. The show featured imagery of Kim and Moon at their first summit in April in the demilitarised zone that divides the peninsula — prompting the unusual sight of tens of thousands of North Koreans in the May Day Stadium applauding pictures of Seoul’s leader. One diplomatic source predicted the visit would see "Kim and Moon together receiving the same sort of applause". But while the summit at the Panmunjom border truce village was high on headline-grabbing symbolism, with ...
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