{"id":7642,"date":"2019-02-08T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:39:21","slug":"s-korea-hopes-for-concrete-progress-in-nuclear-talks-at-2nd-trump-kim-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea hopes for concrete progress in nuclear talks at 2nd Trump-Kim summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/baik-tae-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7644\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/baik-tae-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/baik-tae-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>South Korea&#8217;s Unification Ministry spokesperson Baik Tae-hyun. Photo courtesy of YONHAP News Agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SEOUL, Feb 8 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8212; South Korea&#8217;s unification ministry said Friday that it hopes the upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will produce concrete progress that will pave the way for greater inter-Korean exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baik Tae-hyun, the ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, made the remark during a regular briefing, saying the South is mulling various options, including proposing high-level talks, to move the now-stalled inter-Korean exchanges forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We hope that more specific and substantial progress will be made at the planned second summit between the U.S. and the North,&#8221; Baik said, noting that inter-Korean relations and U.S.-North Korea ties are closely linked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump announced earlier this week that he will hold a second meeting with Kim in Vietnam from Feb. 27-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between the two Koreas made strides last year, with President Moon Jae-in holding summit talks three times with the North&#8217;s leader and agreeing on a series of economic and other cooperation projects. But their implementation has been delayed due to international sanctions on Pyongyang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials have said that there must first be tangible progress in denuclearization negotiations between the U.S. and the North so that Washington can ease sanctions and allow inter-Korean cooperation projects to move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In terms of inter-Korean relations, we are considering high-level talks while taking various situations into account, but nothing has been decided,&#8221; Baik said. &#8220;As you know, inter-Korean relations, U.S.-North Korea relations and denuclearization are in a virtuous cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-YONHAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Feb 8 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8212; South Korea&#8217;s unification ministry said Friday that it hopes the upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will produce concrete progress that will pave the way for greater inter-Korean exchanges. Baik Tae-hyun, the ministry&#8217;s spokesperson, made the remark during a regular briefing, saying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7643,"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\/7642"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}