There are just two problems: he only has one five-year term in office to do so; and the United States, South Korea's most important ally, may not be on board. North Korean state media warned last week an ongoing deadlock in talks was "turning the seething expectation and hopes of the world people into impatience and disappointment." "This wedge has not necessarily been developed by North Korea, but North Korea is leveraging it -- by pressuring Seoul to now convince Washington to ease sanctions, while delaying discussion of concrete steps for denuclearization," they added. In an editorial Tuesday, the North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said "the adoption of a war-end declaration is a task that brooks no further delay." This could enable South Korea to lift sanctions and move forward with greater economic engagement with the North, plans for which Moon has been promoting.

Source: CNN August 23, 2018 01:41 UTC