South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday highlighted the importance of a proposed visit by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to his country, saying it may help speed up North Korea's denuclearization process.
President Moon said the proposed visit may also help ensure greater success in the second U.S.-North Korea summit, expected to be held early next year.
The president said in a joint press conference, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern "There is a possibility that Chairman Kim Jong-un's Seoul visit may be made within the year.
President Moon told the press conference that Chairman Kim's visit to Seoul may further promote North Korea's denuclearization and lead to greater progress. The South Korean president is on a three-day state visit to New Zealand and that started on Sunday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to meet Kim for their second bilateral meeting.
President Moon said he will seek to ensure the success of the second Kim –Trump meeting, should Kim decide to visit his country before the U.S.-North Korea summit.
The South Korean government has released a five-year development plan to ensure inter-Korean relations keep moving forward. It was pushing forward with peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, and forming an institutional framework to preserve warm inter-Korean ties. According to Seoul's unification ministry, South Korea will declare a formal end to the Korean War and hold three-way or four-way talks with relevant parties to sign a peace treaty.
But the government is aware that it may not be able to declare the war's end within this year. Within the next five years, Seoul will keep inter-Korean exchanges sustainable and prevent them from being affected by ups and downs in their relations. Running the joint liaison office in a stable manner is also a must.
The Seoul government also hopes to encourage North Korea to engage further with the international community. It aims to provide support for cultivating manpower in the North and for holding international conferences that involve Pyeongyang's experts. It will also to seek ways to cooperate with international financial institutions to deliver development aid to the North.
A small South Korean satellite designed to carry out space observation was successfully launched on Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX's Falcon 9 blasted off at around 10:30AM local time, carrying 64 satellites, including South Korea's Next Sat-1.
It has been confirmed by Seoul's Ministry of Science and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology that the country's satellite successfully entered its orbital altitude and was in full operation about six and a half hours after the launch.
Source: Arirang News
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