S. Korea team to fly North to discuss summit details

AFP  |  Seoul 

A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between and

Chung Eui-yong, of the presidential National Security Office, will lead a five-member delegation to the North's capital on Wednesday, Moon's told reporters.

The delegation, which also includes South Korea's Suh Hoon, will fly to via a rare direct route across the inter-Korean border for their day trip.

It will be Chung's second visit to the North since March, when he headed the same five-member team to arrange the first summit between Moon and Kim and met

The said it was unclear whether the delegation would meet the North's this time around.

Moon and Kim have met face-to-face twice now, the first during a historic summit at the border truce village of in April.

It was the first time a North Korean had crossed into the South since the 1950-53 war sealed the division of the

They met a second time in in May as they scrambled to salvage plans for a summit between Kim and US in Singapore, which eventually went ahead on June 12.

Moon and Kim have since agreed to hold a third summit in Pyongyang at an unspecified date in September.

The rapid rapprochement on the led to the landmark meeting between Kim and Trump in June, which the US touted as a historic breakthrough.

At the summit the pair reached a vague agreement to work towards the "complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula", but there has been little movement since.

Pyongyang has slammed the US for its "gangster-like" demands for complete, verifiable and irreversible disarmament, and the UN's International Atomic Energy

Agency reported there was no indication that the North had stopped its nuclear activities.

Last month Trump ordered to abruptly cancel a planned trip to Pyongyang, citing lack of progress on denuclearisation.

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First Published: Sun, September 02 2018. 14:15 IST