Another Summit Likely with North Korea After Moon’s US Visit

South Korean president Moon Jae-in wants to salvage relations with North Korea and is seeking approval from the US to send a special envoy to Pyongyang to arrange a meeting. This will be an inter-Korean summit.

Experts say sending an envoy to Pyongyang after the Moon-Trump Summit is viewed as a precursor to a third meeting between Trump and Kim later this year. The upcoming inter-Korean summit will focus on the denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea, and trust-building measures.

The South Korean leader heading for the US is the first meeting since the later's failed talks with Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. According to experts, the talks failed because Trump didn't give into Kim's request for easing the sanctions in exchange for the verifiable dismantling of the North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex and a freeze on missile material production.

North Korea went to the extent of issuing a threat to quit the nuclear talks. And this prompted Moon from being a 'mediator' to a 'facilitator'.