韓國代表團赴朝敲定南北峯會最後安排
South Korea's presidential office says a delegation personally met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday and delivered a letter addressed to him from President Moon Jae-in.
The delegation, led by Chung Eui-yong, President Moon's national security advisor, arrived in Pyongyang earlier in the day to finalize arrangements for a summit to be held in the North Korean capital later this month between Moon and Kim. The summit will be the third between Moon and Kim this year; the previous two were held in Panmunjon, the truce village in the border zone that separates the autocratic North from the democratic South.
The talks come amid a heated stalemate between the North and the United States over the pace of North Korea ending its nuclear and missile development programs, which the two sides agreed to during the historic meeting in April between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore.
The impasse led President Trump to cancel Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's trip to North Korea last month.韓國總統辦公室說，韓國代表團週三與朝鮮領導人金正恩會面，並向他轉交了一封文在寅總統給他的信。
以韓國國家安全顧問鄭義榮率領的代表團星期三早些時候抵達平壤，爲確定本月晚些時候在平壤舉行文在寅與金正恩峯會的安排進行最後討論。這將是兩位領導人今年舉行的第三次峯會。前兩次都是在板門店（Panmunjon）舉行的，那裏是位於雙方交界地區的停戰村。
此時正值美國和朝鮮在平壤結束核武器和導彈發展計劃的問題上越來越僵持不下之際。美國總統特朗普和金正恩曾於今年4月在新加坡舉行的歷史性峯會中達成協議。
這一僵局導致特朗普總統上個月取消國務卿蓬佩奧對朝鮮的訪問。
