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.
