North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un expressed his “unshakable will” to meet with the US President during the surprise summit he held Saturday with the South Korean President, media reports said on Sunday.
(FILES)(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on May 24, 2018 shows US President Donald Trump at the National Building Museum May 22, 2018 in Washington, DC, and an undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 10, 2016 of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on May 9, 2016. (Photo: AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND KCNA VIA KNS / Brendan Smialowski AND KCNA / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA)
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un expressed his “unshakable will” to meet with the US President during the surprise summit he held Saturday with the South Korean President, media reports said on Sunday.
Kim conveyed this position to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, with whom he also agreed to hold another high-level inter-Korean meeting on 1 June, during the unannounced summit they held in Panmunjom, on the militarized border between the two countries, Efe reported.
The North Korean Marshal “thanked Moon Jae-in for his great efforts” to support the summit scheduled between Washington and Pyongyang on 12 June in Singapore and expressed his “unshakable will on these historic talks”.
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“They shared the opinion that they would meet frequently in the future to make dialogue brisk and pool wisdom and efforts, expressing their stand to make joint efforts for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula,” media reports said.
Pyongyang thus reported on the content of the unexpected meeting between the leaders of the two Koreas on Saturday, which was only made public at the end of the meeting when the South Korean presidential office announced it in a statement.
Kim and Moon had their first summit on 27 April, when they signed the Panmunjom Declaration, committing themselves to work for the “total denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.
At their new meeting on Saturday, the two leaders agreed to hold more high-level talks on June 1 and to continue to accelerate their dialogue in several areas, including military cooperation or the implementation of other points agreed in Panmunjom.
On the other hand, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that things are moving “very nicely” towards a summit on 12 June in Singapore with Kim Jong-un.
“It’s moving along very nicely,” Trump said at the White House during a meeting with a US prisoner freed by Venezuela.
“We’re looking at 12 June in Singapore. It hasn’t changed”.
(With PTI inputs.)
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