North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un met with top aides to South Korean president Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang on Monday.
The meeting is the first of its kind since Kim took power in 2011 and the strongest indicator yet that President Donald Trump’s campaign to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is working.
South Korea’s National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong and National Intelligence Service
By Ivan Pentchoov | Epoch Times
chief Suh Hoon met with Kim during a dinner banquet at North Korea’s capital in an effort to persuade the dictator to start talks with the United States about denuclearization, Bloomberg reported.
The envoys also planned to discuss the release of three Korean-Americans imprisoned in North Korea.
Monday’s meeting is the second engagement between high-level officials from the two Koreas in less than a month. Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, traveled to South Korea last month for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics and met the South Korean president.
Moon credited Trump’s aggressive foreign policy for bringing about the talks where North Korea agreed to send a delegation to the Olympics.
During her Olympics visit, Kim Yo Jong, the head of the communist regime’s propaganda and agitation department, invited President Moon to visit Pyongyang for a summit. Moon has not yet agreed but sent a delegation to discuss that possibility, Wall Street Journal reported. The South Korean envoys planned to travel to the United States to relay the content of Monday’s meeting.
Kim has not met with any officials from South Korea or any foreign heads of state since taking power in 2011.
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The press will likely not give President Trump at least some of the credit for this historic meeting between North and South Korea. The news media clobbered Trump for his tough to Kim Jong Un after a series of provocations from the hermit kingdom.
