South Korea Names 2 Envoys to Meet With Kim Jong-un

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