South Korea Names 2 Envoys to Meet With Kim Jong-un<br />The visit will be also the first by South Korean envoys to the North since relations between the two Koreas soured in 2008<br />with the election of a conservative South Korean president who took a harder line on the North’s weapons programs.<br />By CHOE SANG-HUNMARCH 4, 2018<br />SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, has selected two of his closest aides to go to North Korea this week<br />to meet North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in an attempt to defuse tensions on the peninsula, officials said on Sunday.<br />Suh, is a career intelligence officer who was involved in negotiations<br />that led to the first inter-Korean summit meeting between Kim Jong-il, Mr. Kim’s father, and Kim Dae-jung, then the South Korean leader, in 2000.<br />The two will most likely be the first South Korean officials to meet Mr. Kim, who<br />took power in the reclusive communist state after his father died six years ago.<br />Mr. Chung will lead the South Korean delegation, which will total 10 members, to the<br />North Korean capital, Pyongyang, according to Yoon Young-chan, a spokesman for Mr.<br />McMaster, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, Mr. Chung has worked to coordinate American and South Korean approaches toward North Korea.<br />Moon hopes to seize an opening that he believes was created last month, when Mr. Kim sent North Korean officials, including his sister, as well as athletes<br />and cheerleaders to the Pyeongchang Olympics in the South.
