Seoul: The US envoys for North Korea will visit South Korea this weekend, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, in the midst of a deadlock for South Korean military training that North Korea could trigger a security crisis.
US special representatives for North Korea Sung Kim arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a four-day visit, where he would meet with his South Korean colleague, Noh Kyu-duk, and other officials, other officials said.
“Noh will hold talks with Kim on Monday and discuss the way of cooperation to bring substantive progress for complete denuclirization and the peace of the Korean Peninsula,” said the ministry in a statement.
The Allies started annual military training this week, mostly involving computer simulations with minimum personnel and no field training in the light of the Pandemic Coronavirus.
North Korea saw such an exercise as an exercise for the war against it.
It warns South Korea that the exercise will risk melting in the relationship between the two Korea, which reopens the last month’s hotline, a year after North Korea suspends them.
Shortly after the initial training for training began last week, North stopped answering the hotline.
Kim Yo Jong, a sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and strong-powered party officials, accused the southern “perfection behavior”.
Kim Yong Chol, a senior North Korean official, said South Korea and the United States faced “serious security crisis” because of their “dangerous choices”.
North Korea staged his own summer training, but South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook told legislators, there was no unusual military movement from the north, rejecting media reports being prepared to test fire missiles.
Exercise AS-South Koran has been reduced back in recent years to help talks aims to urge North Korea to dismantle nuclear programs and missiles in return for US aid but negotiations collapsed in 2019.
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It will explore diplomacy to achieve its goal of a complete denuclirization of North Korea but will not look for big bargains with Kim.
Sung Kim, veteran nuclear negotiator, who called for his last visit to Seoul in June for “positive responses” from the North to US offer to “meet anywhere, anytime without prerequisites”.
North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests but suspended them and remote missile trials in 2018, shortly before North Korea’s leader Kim met with US President Donald Trump, in Singapore.
US envoys for North Korea to visit the south amid deadlock over military training
