{"id":154957,"date":"2018-03-02T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154957"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T06:39:11","slug":"south-koreas-moon-plans-to-send-envoy-to-north-korea-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/02\/south-koreas-moon-plans-to-send-envoy-to-north-korea-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea’s Moon plans to send envoy to North Korea soon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to send a special envoy to North Korea soon to set up more meaningful dialogue between the rivals that Seoul hopes will eventually include discussions over disarming the North of nuclear weapons.(KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SEOUL,\u00a0Korea, Republic Of<\/strong> –\u00a0South\u00a0Korean President\u00a0Moon\u00a0Jae-in\u00a0plans\u00a0to\u00a0send\u00a0a special\u00a0envoy\u00a0to\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0soon\u00a0to\u00a0set up more meaningful dialogue between the rivals that Seoul hopes will eventually include discussions over disarming the\u00a0North\u00a0of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Seoul’s presidential office said\u00a0Moon\u00a0revealed the\u00a0plans\u00a0to\u00a0President Donald Trump in a 30-minute telephone conversation late Thursday. The office did not say how Trump reacted\u00a0tothe\u00a0plans.<\/p>\n

North\u00a0Korean officials visiting the\u00a0South\u00a0for the recently concluded Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have said leader Kim Jong Un wants\u00a0to\u00a0hold a summit with\u00a0Moon\u00a0and that\u00a0NorthKorea\u00a0aims\u00a0to\u00a0open talk with the United States.<\/p>\n

North\u00a0Korea\u00a0sent around 500 people\u00a0to\u00a0the Olympics, including high-level officials, athletes, artists, journalists and cheerleaders in part of conciliatory gestures with the\u00a0South\u00a0that brought a temporary lull\u00a0to\u00a0tensions surrounding the\u00a0North’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

Experts say the\u00a0North’s outreach over the Olympics shows its ambition\u00a0to\u00a0break out of diplomatic isolation and pressure by improving relations with the\u00a0South\u00a0and using that as a bridge\u00a0to\u00a0approach the United States.<\/p>\n

Visiting as a special\u00a0envoy, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, told\u00a0Moon\u00a0that her brother wishes\u00a0to\u00a0meet\u00a0Moon\u00a0in\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0soon.\u00a0Kim Yong Chol, a vice chairman of\u00a0NorthKorea’s ruling Workers’ Party Central Committee, during his talks with\u00a0Moon\u00a0said the\u00a0North\u00a0has \u201cample intentions\u201d for holding talks with the United States.<\/p>\n

Moon\u00a0has yet\u00a0to\u00a0firmly commit\u00a0to\u00a0a summit, saying that the\u00a0Koreas\u00a0must first create an \u201cenvironment\u201d for that\u00a0to\u00a0happen. Trump has responded\u00a0to\u00a0North\u00a0Korea’s overture by saying that talks with\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0will happen only if conditions are right. The U.S. has said\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0must make a clear commitment\u00a0to\u00a0eliminating its nuclear and missile programs before any talks can take place.<\/p>\n

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SEOUL,\u00a0Korea, Republic Of –\u00a0South\u00a0Korean President\u00a0Moon\u00a0Jae-in\u00a0plans\u00a0to\u00a0send\u00a0a special\u00a0envoy\u00a0to\u00a0North\u00a0Korea\u00a0soon\u00a0to\u00a0set up more meaningful dialogue between the rivals that Seoul hopes will eventually include discussions …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[9869,5923,47525,47524,38323],"class_list":["post-154957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-kim-yo-jong","tag-kim-yong-chol","tag-president-moon-jae-in","mauthors-kim-tong-hyung","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}