SEOUL, Aug 27 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s nuclear envoy will visit Washington this weekend, to discuss issues on the Korean Peninsula, the South Korean foreign ministry said.
Noh Kyu-duk, South Korea’s special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will make a four-day trip to Washington, between Sunday and Wednesday, at the invitation of Sung Kim, U.S. special representative for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
During the visit, Noh will meet officials from the U.S. Department of State and the White House, to continue the close consultations, which the two sides had during the U.S. nuclear envoy’s trip to Seoul earlier this week.
During the meeting in Seoul, Noh and Kim discussed the possible humanitarian assistance to the DPRK, calling for Pyongyang to return to the dialogue table.
South Korea’s foreign ministry said, it anticipated that an in-depth discussion can be made, between South Korea and the United States, during Noh’s Washington trip for the early resumption of the Korean Peninsula peace process.
Denuclearisation talks between the DPRK and the United States have been stalled since the second summit, between top DPRK leader, Kim Jong Un, and former U.S. President, Donald Trump, ended without agreement in Feb, 2019, in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.– NNN-YONHAP
