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"We find it fortunate that the embers of the North Korea-US
talks are reignited. We are watching developments carefully," Presidential Blue House
spokesman Kim Eui Gyeom said.
President
Trump's cancellation of the summit blindsided treaty ally South Korea, which
had brokered the remarkable detente between Washington and Pyongyang.
President Moon Jae In had to scramble his
national security team when news of President Trump's decision first reached
Seoul late Thursday evening as he called Washington's u-turn "shocking and
very regrettable".
On
Friday, President Trump turned on his heels again, saying the meeting with Mr.
Kim could go ahead after all - and would "likely" happen on the
originally scheduled date of June 12 in Singapore.
The
summit would be an unprecedented meeting between a sitting US president and a
North Korean leader, which Washington hopes will result in full denuclearization
of the reclusive state.
South
Korea's Moon has pushed diplomacy as he desperately sought to calm spiraling
tensions on the Korean Peninsula and an escalating war of words between Mr. Kim
and Mr. Trump last year sparked by Pyongyang's detonation of its largest
nuclear bomb to date and a series of intercontinental ballistic missile tests.
(The Business Times)
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