{"id":21582,"date":"2019-04-23T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T02:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=21582"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T02:28:21","slug":"south-korea-invites-north-to-commemorate-first-moon-kim-summit-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=21582","title":{"rendered":"South Korea invites North to commemorate first Moon-Kim summit anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, April 23 (NNN-Yonhap) &#8212; President Moon Jae-in will be confronted with a host of thorny tasks when he returns from a weeklong visit to Central Asia on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In foreign and security affairs, he is expected to push in earnest for the dispatch of a special envoy to North Korea in a bid to lay the groundwork for his fourth summit with leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His office, Cheong Wa Dae, confirmed that Moon has a message for Kim from U.S. President Donald Trump, although it gave no additional details. Moon had a White House summit with Trump earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Korean president is striving to help revitalize the denuclearization and peace-building process that has been in the doldrums since the talks between Kim and Trump in Hanoi in late February broke up without a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Moon administration plans to hold a ceremony at Panmunjom this weekend to commemorate the first anniversary of the president&#8217;s historic summit with Kim, held at the DMZ village on April 27. It&#8217;s uncertain whether North Korean officials will participate in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moon&#8217;s national security team will closely monitor the North Korean leader&#8217;s trip to Russia this week, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon-768x557.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon-350x254.jpg 350w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moon-600x435.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>South Korea President Moon Jae-in, left and First Lady Kim Jung-sook, right, leave for Central Asia on April 16, 2019. Photo courtesy of Yonhap<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-YONHAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, April 23 (NNN-Yonhap) &#8212; President Moon Jae-in will be confronted with a host of thorny tasks when he returns from a weeklong visit to Central Asia on Tuesday evening. In foreign and security affairs, he is expected to push in earnest for the dispatch of a special envoy to North Korea in a bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}