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North Korea and South Korea to decide date, venue for 3rd summit

Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in met on April 27 and May 26 this year; high-level talks launched on Monday to discuss the date and venue for a third summit

IANS | Seoul | August 13, 2018 10:59 am

North Korea and South Korea to decide date, venue for 3rd summit

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) hug during a signing ceremony near the end of their historic summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018. The leaders of the two Koreas held a landmark summit on April 27 after a highly symbolic handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries, with the North's Kim Jong Un declaring they were at the "threshold of a new history". / AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool

North Korea and South Korea launched high-level talks on Monday to discuss the date and venue for a third summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and top North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The talks started at 10 am in Tongilgak in the border village of Panmunjom, according to the joint press corps report.

Moon and Kim met in Panmunjom on April 27 for the first time, agreeing to hold another summit in Pyongyang in the fall. They met again on May 26.

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The Moon-Kim summit in April was historical as it broke a long spell of hostility between the two sides after the last summit in 2007 in Pyongyang.

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