North Korea leader Kim Jong Un wants to advance Korea ties, makes agreement with South: KCNA
2018-03-06 09:30:41 source：Straits Times
March 6, 2018
SEOUL (REUTERS) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met senior South Korean government officials for the first time and said it is his “firm will to vigorously advance”inter-Korean ties and pursue reunification, the North’s official news agency said on Tuesday (March 6).
A 10-member South Korean delegation led by National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong travelled to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, on Monday in hopes of encouraging North Korea and the United States to talk to one another.
Washington and Pyongyang have been at loggerheads for months over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes, with US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un trading insults and threatening war.
Tensions between the two Koreas eased during the recent Winter Olympics in South Korea, where President Moon Jae In hosted a high-level North Korean delegation. Mr Kim Jong Un invited Mr Moon to North Korea for a summit, which Mr Moon said the two sides should work towards.
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