Moon's NYC trip helped arrange denuclearization talks with N. Korea
- 5 years ago
President Moon Jae-in returned to Seoul yesterday from New York, where he met his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump and attended the UN General Assembly.
For more on his trip we have our Shin Se-min in the studio for us.
Se-min, lets do a bit of a recap can we safely say Moon and Trump's meeting gave a boost to Washington's next round of working-level talks with Pyeongyang?
It sure did.
The presidential office sees the trip this time to New York as relatively a successful one.
One of the major reasons is that President Moon reaffirmed South Korea's ties with the U.S. and cementing their strategy in leading the Korean peace process in the right direction.
In the ninth Moon-Trump summit meeting, President Moon pushed hard to get that third Kim-Trump summit to happen soon.
"If a third North Korea-U.S. summit takes place, it will be a achievement that equals a great transformation in terms of the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
And he also invited the international community to be part of that Korean peace process by turning the Demilitarized Zone into an "international peace zone."
The presidential office says that specific part has an implied message to the North that the rest of the world will support a security guarantee for the regime.
So that alone, is a way of bringing North Korea back to the negotiating table and perhaps even leading the regime to taking more concrete steps toward denuclearization.
For more on his trip we have our Shin Se-min in the studio for us.
Se-min, lets do a bit of a recap can we safely say Moon and Trump's meeting gave a boost to Washington's next round of working-level talks with Pyeongyang?
It sure did.
The presidential office sees the trip this time to New York as relatively a successful one.
One of the major reasons is that President Moon reaffirmed South Korea's ties with the U.S. and cementing their strategy in leading the Korean peace process in the right direction.
In the ninth Moon-Trump summit meeting, President Moon pushed hard to get that third Kim-Trump summit to happen soon.
"If a third North Korea-U.S. summit takes place, it will be a achievement that equals a great transformation in terms of the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
And he also invited the international community to be part of that Korean peace process by turning the Demilitarized Zone into an "international peace zone."
The presidential office says that specific part has an implied message to the North that the rest of the world will support a security guarantee for the regime.
So that alone, is a way of bringing North Korea back to the negotiating table and perhaps even leading the regime to taking more concrete steps toward denuclearization.