Kim to visit South Korea 'soon': Moon
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Seoul "soon", the South's President Moon Jae-in said yesterday, amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula despite stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
At their third summit in Pyongyang in September, the leaders of the two Koreas agreed Kim would visit Seoul "in the near future" without giving a specific date.
Moon later suggested that the trip was likely to happen this year, and told lawmakers yesterday that the peninsula was approaching "the historic starting line" for peace.
"It appears that Chairman Kim Jong Un's trip to Russia and a visit to North Korea by (Chinese) President Xi Jinping will happen soon," Moon said, adding there was an "open" possibility of a meeting between Kim and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"Chairman Kim Jong Un's return visit to Seoul will happen soon," he added.
No further detail was given.
Under a pact signed by the defence ministers at the September summit in Pyongyang all hostile activities along the border were to cease from November 1, including military drills on land, at sea and in the air, to prevent accidental clashes.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the two sides still technically at war.
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