SKorea pushes Pyongyang-US talks
Credit to Author: Xinhua| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:13:30 +0000
SEOUL: South Korea’s unification ministry said on Monday that the country will take necessary actions to maintain dialogue momentum between North Korea and the United States.
Lee Sang-min, spokesman of the unification ministry, told a press briefing that the government will take necessary actions and make efforts to maintain and advance the North Korea-US dialogue momentum as both countries still have willingness to make progress through dialogue.
The comment came after the North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday that it conducted a “very important test” at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground on Saturday.
North Korea’s Academy of National Defense Science reported the results of the “successful test of great significance” to the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The test will “have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] once again in the near future,” said the KCNA without further elaboration.
The spokesman said South Korea will closely monitor relevant situations in the North while taking current situations very gravely, noting that Seoul was closely watching relevant situations in cooperation with Washington.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in held phone talks with US President Donald Trump on Saturday over the Korean Peninsula issues, according to the presidential Blue House.
The two leaders shared a view that the recent Korean Peninsula situations were severe, agreeing that the dialogue momentum between the North Korea and the United States should be maintained to achieve the early outcomes of the denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
XINHUA