SEOUL: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un discussed future talks with the US at a party meeting, state media reported Tuesday, in his first official mention of dialogue with Washington ahead of a planned summit with President Donald Trump. At the meeting of party officials Monday, Kim discussed the “development of the north-south relations at present and the prospect of the DPRK-U.S. dialogue”, the official KCNA news agency said, referring to the North by its official acronym. In a growing rapprochement on the Korean peninsula, Kim is scheduled to meet the South’s president Moon Jae-in for a rare inter-Korean summit on April 27. Trump has agreed to meet Kim for a historic US-North Korean summit to discuss denuclearisation as soon as next month. But the North had remained publicly silent since its leader’s invitation to talks was delivered to Trump by South Korean officials last month.

Source: Manila Times April 10, 2018 03:22 UTC