SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday said he hopes to see North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fulfill a promise to visit the South this year and called for the Koreas to end a prolonged freeze in bilateral relations. “The South and North should work together so to create the conditions for Chairman Kim Jong Un’s visit (to South Korea) as soon as possible,” Moon said during a nationally televised speech. South Korean tours to the North’s Diamond Mountain resort were a major symbol of rapprochement between the rivals before they were suspended in 2008 after a North Korean guard fatally shot a South Korean tourist. Seoul’s previous conservative government shut down a jointly run factory park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong in 2016 following a North Korean nuclear test. Reporting by Kim Tong-HyungImage: South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during his New Year’s speech at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020.

Source: Egypt Independent January 07, 2020 03:00 UTC