South Korea calls for US-North Korea meeting ahead of US elections.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said another summit between Trump and Kim would help revive stalled nuclear negotiations.
Reuters - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should meet again before the U.S. presidential elections in November, a Seoul official told reporters on Wednesday.
Moon's comments were made during a video conference with European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday, during which he said another summit between Trump and Kim would help revive stalled nuclear negotiations.
"I believe it is necessary for North Korea and the United States to try to engage in dialogue once again before the US presidential elections," Moon said, according to a presidential official.
"The issues of nuclear programs and sanctions will have to be resolved through negotiations between North Korea and the US."
Moon's cabinet has conveyed these views to Washington, and authorities there are working to resume negotiations, the South Korean official said.
Trump and Kim first met in 2018 in Singapore, raising hopes for a deal that would lead Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. But their second summit, in early 2019 in Vietnam, fell through.
They met again in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in June 2019 and agreed to restart negotiations, but working-level talks between the two sides in Sweden in October were interrupted.
Inter-Korean tensions increased last month after... North Korea blew up a liaison office. Together, he cut direct lines of communication and threatened military action against plans by southern defector groups to send anti-Kim leaflets across the border. After weeks of heated exchanges, Kim suspended the military plans, without specifying why.