South Korea president urges Trump, Kim to meet again before US presidential vote
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called on his American counterpart, Donald Trump, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet once again before the presidential election in the United States.
President Moon said that another summit between Trump and Kim would help resume stalled negotiations over demilitarization on the Korean Peninsula.
The South’s president has been trying to mediate between the North and the United States. Trump and Kim have already met three times, mainly on his auspices.
Moon made his latest remarks during a video conference with European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday, a day after the United States’ point man on North Korea cast doubt on prospects of another summit between the two leaders before the November election.
Citing the coronavirus pandemic, the US’s deputy secretary of state and lead negotiator with North Korea, Steve Biegun, said on Monday that another summit was “probably unlikely between now and the US election.”
Biegun, however, said Washington would “continue to leave the door open to diplomacy.”
“We believe there’s still time for the United States and North Korea to make substantial progress in the direction that we believe that both sides want to go,” he said.
Negotiations between the US and North Korea have gradually halted owing to Trump’s refusal to relieve any of the harsh US sanctions on the North in exchange for goodwill measures by Pyongyang.
Trump has recently made no comment on North Korea, but his former national security adviser, John Bolton, wrote in a newly published memoir that Trump told Moon ahead of his third meeting with Kim at the Demilitarized Zone in June 2019 that he might ask that the next US-North Korea summit be after the US election.
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